diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 97079e5aed..2037d462d2 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -3886,7 +3886,7 @@
             Supporting a read-only root filesystem requires that the system and
             applications do not try to write to the root filesystem.
             You must configure all parts of the target system to write
-            elsewhere, or gracefully fail in the event of failing to
+            elsewhere, or to gracefully fail in the event of failing to
             write to the root filesystem.
         </note>