diff --git a/man7/xattr.7 b/man7/xattr.7
index b53e8df63..0ea0641d6 100644
--- a/man7/xattr.7
+++ b/man7/xattr.7
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ require the filesystem to be mounted with the
 mount option in order for extended user attributes to be used.
 .PP
 In the current ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystem implementations,
-the total bytes used by the names and values of all of a files
+the total bytes used by the names and values of all of a file's
 extended attributes must fit in a single filesystem block (1024, 2048
 or 4096 bytes, depending on the block size specified when the
 filesystem was created).