diff --git a/src/mon/MonCommands.h b/src/mon/MonCommands.h
index 79505f256c3..8c08030f214 100644
--- a/src/mon/MonCommands.h
+++ b/src/mon/MonCommands.h
@@ -496,7 +496,7 @@ COMMAND("osd pool create " \
 	"name=pool,type=CephPoolname " \
 	"name=pg_num,type=CephInt,range=0 " \
 	"name=pgp_num,type=CephInt,range=0,req=false " \
-        "name=pool_type,type=CephChoices,strings=rep|erasure,req=false " \
+        "name=pool_type,type=CephChoices,strings=replicated|erasure,req=false " \
 	"name=properties,type=CephString,n=N,req=false,goodchars=[A-Za-z0-9-_.=]", \
 	"create pool", "osd", "rw", "cli,rest")
 COMMAND("osd pool delete " \
diff --git a/src/test/pybind/test_ceph_argparse.py b/src/test/pybind/test_ceph_argparse.py
index fdfd726d400..fbd0b431419 100755
--- a/src/test/pybind/test_ceph_argparse.py
+++ b/src/test/pybind/test_ceph_argparse.py
@@ -886,30 +886,7 @@ class TestOSD(TestArgparse):
                                    'poolname', '128', '128'])
         self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
                                    'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'foo=bar'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'foo=bar', 'baz=frob'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128',
-                                   'foo=bar', 'baz=frob'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'rep'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'raid4'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'erasure'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'rep',
-                                   'foo=bar'])
-        self.assert_valid_command(['osd', 'pool', 'create',
-                                   'poolname', '128', '128',
-                                   'rep',
-                                   'foo=bar', 'bar=baz'])
+                                   'whatever'])
         assert_equal({}, validate_command(sigdict, ['osd', 'pool', 'create']))
         assert_equal({}, validate_command(sigdict, ['osd', 'pool', 'create',
                                                     'poolname']))