diff --git a/man7/inotify.7 b/man7/inotify.7
index 76da30151..43b89e033 100644
--- a/man7/inotify.7
+++ b/man7/inotify.7
@@ -601,6 +601,11 @@ The
 returns the number of bytes available to read from an
 inotify file descriptor.
 .SS Limitations and caveats
+The inotify applications identifies events via watch descriptors.
+It is the application's responsibility to cache a mapping
+(if one is needed) between watch descriptors and pathnames.
+Be aware that directory renamings may affect multiple cached pathnames.
+
 Inotify monitoring of directories is not recursive:
 to monitor subdirectories under a directory,
 additional watches must be created.
@@ -630,11 +635,6 @@ new files (and subdirectories) may already exist inside the subdirectory.
 Therefore, you may want to scan the contents of the subdirectory
 immediately after adding the watch (and, if desired,
 recursively add watches for any subdirectories that it contains).
-
-The inotify applications identifies events via watch descriptors.
-It is the application's responsibility to cache a mapping
-(if one is needed) between watch descriptors and pathnames.
-Be aware that directory renamings may affect multiple cached pathnames.
 .SH BUGS
 .\" FIXME kernel commit 611da04f7a31b2208e838be55a42c7a1310ae321
 .\" implies that unmount events were buggy 2.6.11 to 2.6.36