diff --git a/man2/getxattr.2 b/man2/getxattr.2
index 83945fed1..ac37cd52d 100644
--- a/man2/getxattr.2
+++ b/man2/getxattr.2
@@ -109,6 +109,11 @@ On failure, \-1 is returned and
 is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
+.B E2BIG
+The size of the attribute value is larger than the maximum size allowed; the
+attribute cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that support
+very large attribute values such as NFSv4, for example.
+.TP
 .B ENOATTR
 The named attribute does not exist, or the process has no access to
 this attribute.
@@ -127,11 +132,6 @@ The
 of the
 .I value
 buffer is too small to hold the result.
-.TP
-.B E2BIG
-The size of the attribute value is larger than the maximum size allowed; the
-attribute cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that support
-very large attribute values such as NFSv4, for example.
 .PP
 In addition, the errors documented in
 .BR stat (2)
diff --git a/man2/listxattr.2 b/man2/listxattr.2
index e923af4b5..b3af4d4e4 100644
--- a/man2/listxattr.2
+++ b/man2/listxattr.2
@@ -136,6 +136,12 @@ is set appropriately.
 .SH ERRORS
 .TP
 .B E2BIG
+The size of the list of extended attribute names is larger than the maximum
+size allowed; the list cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that
+support an unlimited number of extended attributes per file such as XFS, for
+example.
+.TP
+.B E2BIG
 The size of the list of attribute names for this file exceeds
 the system-imposed limit.
 See BUGS.
@@ -149,12 +155,6 @@ The
 of the
 .I list
 buffer is too small to hold the result.
-.TP
-.B E2BIG
-The size of the list of extended attribute names is larger than the maximum
-size allowed; the list cannot be retrieved. This can happen on filesystems that
-support an unlimited number of extended attributes per file such as XFS, for
-example.
 .PP
 In addition, the errors documented in
 .BR stat (2)