diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 384c3943b..2b1246925 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2008-10-07</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[randy] - Corrected the instruction to untar the E2fsprogs
+          tarball in Section 2.3. Thanks to William Immendorf for pointing
+          out the error.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[randy] - Updated Berkeley DB to 4.7.25.</para>
         </listitem>
diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
index 57ca2d142..51fbc1fd7 100644
--- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
+++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     resulting binaries to re-create the filesystem on your LFS partition:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /tmp
-tar -xjvf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2
+tar -xzvf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz
 cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;
 mkdir -v build
 cd build