diff --git a/doc/rados/operations/placement-groups.rst b/doc/rados/operations/placement-groups.rst
index 3875f7cc814..5fcbc603495 100644
--- a/doc/rados/operations/placement-groups.rst
+++ b/doc/rados/operations/placement-groups.rst
@@ -183,7 +183,6 @@ The output will resemble the following::
    .. prompt:: bash #
 
       ceph osd pool set .mgr crush_rule replicated-ssd
-      ceph osd pool set pool 1 crush_rule to replicated-ssd
 
    This intervention will result in a small amount of backfill, but
    typically this traffic completes quickly.