diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/ozonefs-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ozone/BasicRootedOzoneFileSystem.java b/hadoop-ozone/ozonefs-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ozone/BasicRootedOzoneFileSystem.java
index 224d94baa5d0..55d8e37c4696 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/ozonefs-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ozone/BasicRootedOzoneFileSystem.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/ozonefs-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/ozone/BasicRootedOzoneFileSystem.java
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ private boolean deleteInSpan(Path f, boolean recursive) throws IOException {
         throw new IOException("Recursive volume delete using " +
             "ofs is not supported. " +
             "Instead use 'ozone sh volume delete -r " +
-            "-id <OM_SERVICE_ID> <Volume_URI>' command");
+            "o3://<OM_SERVICE_ID>/<Volume_URI>' command");
       }
       return deleteVolume(f, ofsPath);
     }