diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index 057d031945f..7acd64ae118 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-2655. BlockReaderLocal#skip performs unnecessary IO. (Brandon Li 
     via jitendra)
 
+    HDFS-2725. hdfs script usage information is missing the information 
+    about "dfs" command (Prashant Sharma via stevel)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
   BUG FIXES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
index 314fac8fd82..4c56bb3f149 100755
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/bin/hdfs
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR=${HADOOP_LIBEXEC_DIR:-$DEFAULT_LIBEXEC_DIR}
 function print_usage(){
   echo "Usage: hdfs [--config confdir] COMMAND"
   echo "       where COMMAND is one of:"
+  echo "  dfs                  run a filesystem command on the file systems supported in Hadoop."
   echo "  namenode -format     format the DFS filesystem"
   echo "  secondarynamenode    run the DFS secondary namenode"
   echo "  namenode             run the DFS namenode"