diff --git a/docs/reference/cat/allocation.asciidoc b/docs/reference/cat/allocation.asciidoc
index 3719758ff58e9..d59f6a260ad8b 100644
--- a/docs/reference/cat/allocation.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/reference/cat/allocation.asciidoc
@@ -21,5 +21,4 @@ shards disk.indices disk.used disk.avail disk.total disk.percent host      ip
 // TESTRESPONSE[s/\d+(\.\d+)?[tgmk]?b/\\d+(\\.\\d+)?[tgmk]?b/ s/46/\\d+/]
 // TESTRESPONSE[s/CSUXak2/.+/ _cat]
 
-Here we can see that each node has been allocated a single shard and
-that they're all using about the same amount of space.
+Here we can see that all 5 shards have been allocated to the single node available.