diff --git a/etc/cgroup.release_common.example.in b/etc/cgroup.release_common.example.in
index f642cc3298092d2bdc6c84b6d5dc0dd8a28c8b90..0e107ab0734534c116eb23b5fe00873735904feb 100644
--- a/etc/cgroup.release_common.example.in
+++ b/etc/cgroup.release_common.example.in
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ get_mount_dir()
     elif X=$(grep -si -m1 "^CgroupMountpoint=" @sysconfdir@/cgroup.conf); then
         echo $X | sed "s/.*=\(.*\)/\1\/${subsystem}/"
     else
-        echo "/cgroup/$subsystem"
+        echo "/sys/fs/cgroup/$subsystem"
     fi
 }