diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/TopicForm.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/TopicForm.tsx
index 891f03168..c4079e12c 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/TopicForm.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/TopicForm.tsx
@@ -206,7 +206,7 @@ const TopicForm: React.FC<Props> = ({
               id="topicFormRetentionBytesLabel"
               htmlFor="topicFormRetentionBytes"
             >
-              Max size on disk in GB
+              Max partition size in GB
             </InputLabel>
             <Controller
               control={control}
diff --git a/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/__tests__/TopicForm.spec.tsx b/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/__tests__/TopicForm.spec.tsx
index 347ce935e..4eb0ad418 100644
--- a/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/__tests__/TopicForm.spec.tsx
+++ b/frontend/src/components/Topics/shared/Form/__tests__/TopicForm.spec.tsx
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ describe('TopicForm', () => {
     expectByRoleAndNameToBeInDocument('button', '7 days');
     expectByRoleAndNameToBeInDocument('button', '4 weeks');
 
-    expectByRoleAndNameToBeInDocument('listbox', 'Max size on disk in GB');
+    expectByRoleAndNameToBeInDocument('listbox', 'Max partition size in GB');
     expectByRoleAndNameToBeInDocument(
       'spinbutton',
       'Maximum message size in bytes'