diff --git a/tests/xfs/288 b/tests/xfs/288
index bccdb6fc..f4165b6c 100755
--- a/tests/xfs/288
+++ b/tests/xfs/288
@@ -56,9 +56,8 @@ $SETFATTR_PROG -n "user.testattr${seq}" \
 
 _scratch_unmount
 # manually corrupt the XFS, by set the header count of attr to 0
-_scratch_xfs_db -x -c "inode $inum" \
-		   -c "ablock 0" \
-		   -c "write hdr.count 0" >> $seqres.full
+_scratch_xfs_set_metadata_field "hdr.count" "0" \
+				"inode $inum" "ablock 0" >> $seqres.full
 
 # make sure xfs_repair can find above corruption. If it can't, that
 # means we need to fix this bug on current xfs_repair