diff --git a/conf.d/localmount b/conf.d/localmount
index e7277194..25ca3cd6 100644
--- a/conf.d/localmount
+++ b/conf.d/localmount
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 #no_umounts="/dir1:/var/dir2"
 #
 # Mark certain mount points as critical.
-# This contains aspace separated list of mount points which should be
+# This contains a space separated list of mount points which should be
 # considered critical. If one of these mount points cannot be mounted,
 # localmount will fail.
 # By default, this is empty.