diff --git a/tools/virsh-volume.c b/tools/virsh-volume.c
index 36dd0ed8e53ba63e49f22b7de35222190595719f..9cc8e5219f8a5c331b604c569d94a35ceedea1ed 100644
--- a/tools/virsh-volume.c
+++ b/tools/virsh-volume.c
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static const vshCmdInfo info_vol_clone[] = {
      .data = N_("clone a volume.")
     },
     {.name = "desc",
-     .data = N_("Clone an existing volume.")
+     .data = N_("Clone an existing volume within the parent pool.")
     },
     {.name = NULL}
 };
diff --git a/tools/virsh.pod b/tools/virsh.pod
index 6c9d4ec6090341b11ca5473245f7f35076b3dc5e..052c7acd0ce091e57ee0ceb2d1aad0c268ce06a0 100644
--- a/tools/virsh.pod
+++ b/tools/virsh.pod
@@ -3530,10 +3530,10 @@ only slightly higher initial disk space usage.
 =item B<vol-clone> [I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid>] I<vol-name-or-key-or-path>
 I<name> [I<--prealloc-metadata>] [I<--reflink>]
 
-Clone an existing volume.  Less powerful, but easier to type, version of
-B<vol-create-from>.
-I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool to create
-the volume in.
+Clone an existing volume within the parent pool.  Less powerful,
+but easier to type, version of B<vol-create-from>.
+I<--pool> I<pool-or-uuid> is the name or UUID of the storage pool
+that contains the source volume, and will contain the new volume.
 I<vol-name-or-key-or-path> is the name or key or path of the source volume.
 I<name> is the name of the new volume.
 [I<--prealloc-metadata>] preallocate metadata (for qcow2 images which don't