diff --git a/chapter02/mounting.xml b/chapter02/mounting.xml
index 69a52c04d..f222fb052 100644
--- a/chapter02/mounting.xml
+++ b/chapter02/mounting.xml
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;yyy&gt;</replaceable> $LFS/home</userinpu
   <warning><para>The above instructions assume that you will not restart
   your computer throughout the LFS process.  If you shut down your system,
   you will either need to remount the LFS partition each time you restart
-  the build process, or modify the host system's /etc/fstab file to automatically
+  the build process, or modify the host system's &fstab; file to automatically
   remount it when you reboot. For example, you might add this line to your 
-  /etc/fstab file:
+  &fstab; file:
 
 <screen role="nodump">/dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable>  /mnt/lfs ext4   defaults      1     1</screen>
 
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index f378f7e20..82d69cf08 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -121,6 +121,7 @@
 
 <!ENTITY root            "<systemitem class='username'>root</systemitem>">
 <!ENTITY lfs-user        "<systemitem class='username'>lfs</systemitem>">
+<!ENTITY fstab           "<filename>/etc/fstab</filename>">
 
 <!ENTITY % packages-entities SYSTEM "packages.ent">
 %packages-entities;