diff --git a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-configure-backing-storage.xml b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-configure-backing-storage.xml
index 6a0d595923..ed62b8540e 100644
--- a/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-configure-backing-storage.xml
+++ b/doc/config-reference/compute/section_compute-configure-backing-storage.xml
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
   disk than what seems available in the virtual machine operating system.
  </para>
   <para>RAW creates files without any sort of file formatting, effectively creating
-   files with the plain binary one would normally see on a real disks. This can
+   files with the plain binary one would normally see on a real disk. This can
    increase performance, but means that the entire size of the virtual disk is
    reserved on the physical disk.
  </para>