diff --git a/man7/namespaces.7 b/man7/namespaces.7
index 725ebaff6..3c155de7e 100644
--- a/man7/namespaces.7
+++ b/man7/namespaces.7
@@ -154,11 +154,14 @@ In Linux 3.7 and earlier, these files were visible as hard links.
 Since Linux 3.8,
 .\" commit bf056bfa80596a5d14b26b17276a56a0dcb080e5
 they appear as symbolic links.
-If two processes are in the same namespace, then the inode numbers of their
+If two processes are in the same namespace,
+then the device IDs and inode numbers of their
 .IR /proc/[pid]/ns/xxx
 symbolic links will be the same; an application can check this using the
+.I stat.st_dev
+and
 .I stat.st_ino
-field returned by
+fields returned by
 .BR stat (2).
 The content of this symbolic link is a string containing
 the namespace type and inode number as in the following example: