diff --git a/man2/fallocate.2 b/man2/fallocate.2
index fc581c2e7..8188764e3 100644
--- a/man2/fallocate.2
+++ b/man2/fallocate.2
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ Zeroing is done within the filesystem preferably by converting the range into
 unwritten extents.
 This approach means that the specified range will not be physically zeroed
 out on the device (except for partial blocks at the either end of the range),
-and I/O is (otherwise) required only to update file metadata.
+and I/O is (otherwise) required only to update metadata.
 
 If the
 .B FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE