diff --git a/components/vfs/README.rst b/components/vfs/README.rst
index 2b2a6bc9f..b99c72134 100644
--- a/components/vfs/README.rst
+++ b/components/vfs/README.rst
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ FS registration
 
 
 
-To register an FS driver, application needs to define in instance of esp_vfs_t structure and populate it with function pointers to FS APIs:
+To register an FS driver, application needs to define in instance of :cpp:type:`esp_vfs_t` structure and populate it with function pointers to FS APIs:
 
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