diff --git a/cmd/podman/pods/create.go b/cmd/podman/pods/create.go
index 5cc4505ff24c..41ead6014a4e 100644
--- a/cmd/podman/pods/create.go
+++ b/cmd/podman/pods/create.go
@@ -62,6 +62,10 @@ func init() {
 	flags := createCommand.Flags()
 	flags.SetInterspersed(false)
 	common.DefineCreateDefaults(&infraOptions)
+	// these settings are not applicable to pod create since they are per-container
+	// and they will end up being duplicated for each container in the pod.
+	infraOptions.Volume = nil
+	infraOptions.Mount = nil
 	common.DefineCreateFlags(createCommand, &infraOptions, entities.InfraMode)
 	common.DefineNetFlags(createCommand)
 
diff --git a/test/system/200-pod.bats b/test/system/200-pod.bats
index c8ef3a80c488..12e41efecf0d 100644
--- a/test/system/200-pod.bats
+++ b/test/system/200-pod.bats
@@ -71,6 +71,24 @@ function teardown() {
 }
 
 
+@test "podman pod create - custom volumes" {
+    skip_if_remote "CONTAINERS_CONF_OVERRIDE only affects server side"
+    image="i.do/not/exist:image"
+    tmpdir=$PODMAN_TMPDIR/pod-test
+    mkdir -p $tmpdir
+    containersconf=$tmpdir/containers.conf
+    cat >$containersconf <<EOF
+[containers]
+volumes = ["/tmp:/foobar"]
+EOF
+
+    CONTAINERS_CONF_OVERRIDE=$containersconf run_podman pod create
+    podid="$output"
+
+    CONTAINERS_CONF_OVERRIDE=$containersconf run_podman create --pod $podid $IMAGE grep foobar /proc/mounts
+}
+
+
 @test "podman pod create - custom infra image" {
     skip_if_remote "CONTAINERS_CONF_OVERRIDE only affects server side"
     image="i.do/not/exist:image"