diff --git a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8 b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
index 9421971a74f5..21d5a64d3b26 100644
--- a/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
+++ b/sbin/newfs/newfs.8
@@ -204,9 +204,6 @@ will be about half of normal during the time that the background
 is running.
 Running a full fsck on a UFS filesystem is the equivalent of
 running a scrub on a ZFS filesystem.
-.Pp
-Presently it is not possible
-to run background fsck on filesystems enabled for journaling.
 .It Fl k Ar held-for-metadata-blocks
 Set the amount of space to be held for metadata blocks in each cylinder group.
 When set, the file system preference routines will try to save
diff --git a/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8 b/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8
index 0264c3e5f772..95adac48b8b2 100644
--- a/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8
+++ b/sbin/tunefs/tunefs.8
@@ -130,9 +130,6 @@ will be about half of normal during the time that the background
 is running.
 Running a full fsck on a UFS filesystem is the equivalent of
 running a scrub on a ZFS filesystem.
-.Pp
-Presently it is not possible
-to run background fsck on filesystems enabled for journaling.
 .It Fl J Cm enable | disable
 Turn on/off gjournal flag.
 .It Fl k Ar held-for-metadata-blocks