diff --git a/docs/reference/indices/shadow-replicas.asciidoc b/docs/reference/indices/shadow-replicas.asciidoc
index 1499aab5909..0d589adb64a 100644
--- a/docs/reference/indices/shadow-replicas.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/indices/shadow-replicas.asciidoc
@@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ curl -XPUT 'localhost:9200/my_index' -d '
 [WARNING]
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 In the above example, the "/opt/data/my_index" path is a shared filesystem that
-must be available on every data node in the Elasticsearch cluster. You must
-also ensure that the Elasticsearch process has the correct permissions to read
-from and write to the directory used in the `index.data_path` setting.
+must be available on every node in the Elasticsearch cluster. You must also
+ensure that the Elasticsearch process has the correct permissions to read from
+and write to the directory used in the `index.data_path` setting.
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 An index that has been created with the `index.shadow_replicas` setting set to