diff --git a/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist b/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist
index ef7ec7f40e0..f3467607256 100644
--- a/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist
+++ b/etc/mtree/BSD.local.dist
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@
         nls
             C
             ..
+            POSIX type=link link=C
             af_ZA.ISO8859-1
             ..
             af_ZA.ISO8859-15
@@ -337,6 +338,7 @@
             ..
             en_US.ISO8859-1
             ..
+            en_US.US-ASCII type=link link=C
             en_US.ISO8859-15
             ..
             es_ES.ISO8859-1
diff --git a/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist b/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist
index df5bdc78088..c0fe83803db 100644
--- a/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist
+++ b/etc/mtree/BSD.usr.dist
@@ -705,6 +705,7 @@
         nls
             C
             ..
+            POSIX type=link link=C
             af_ZA.ISO8859-1
             ..
             af_ZA.ISO8859-15
@@ -769,6 +770,7 @@
             ..
             en_US.ISO8859-1
             ..
+            en_US.US-ASCII type=link link=C
             en_US.ISO8859-15
             ..
             es_ES.ISO8859-1