diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
index 2a10e1c1b..481433919 100644
--- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
+++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml
@@ -38,15 +38,15 @@ stock e2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the
 filesystem on your LFS partition:</para>
 
 <screen><userinput>cd /tmp
-tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-1.36.tar.bz2
-cd e2fsprogs-1.36
+tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2
+cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;
 mkdir build
 cd build
 ../configure
 make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here!
 ./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>
 cd /tmp
-rm -rf e2fsprogs-1.36</userinput></screen>
+rm -rf e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen>
 </note>
 
 <para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized