diff --git a/docs/sources/userguide/dockervolumes.md b/docs/sources/userguide/dockervolumes.md
index fcf7c55943..d533224656 100644
--- a/docs/sources/userguide/dockervolumes.md
+++ b/docs/sources/userguide/dockervolumes.md
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ Let's create a new named container with a volume to share.
 While this container doesn't run an application, it reuses the `training/postgres`
 image so that all containers are using layers in common, saving disk space.
 
-    $ sudo docker create -v /dbdata --name dbdata training/postgres
+    $ sudo docker create -v /dbdata --name dbdata training/postgres /bin/true
 
 You can then use the `--volumes-from` flag to mount the `/dbdata` volume in another container.