diff --git a/sbin/mount/mount.8 b/sbin/mount/mount.8
index b2994d44dba9..8471ca1b4328 100644
--- a/sbin/mount/mount.8
+++ b/sbin/mount/mount.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.18 1997/10/30 22:49:35 enami Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: mount.8,v 1.19 1997/11/19 11:32:03 drochner Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1989, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -66,7 +66,11 @@ or
 .Ar node
 are not provided, the appropriate information is taken from the
 .Xr fstab 5
-file.
+file. (The provided argument is looked up first in the
+.Dq fs_file ,
+then in the
+.Dq fs_spec
+column.)
 .Pp
 The system maintains a list of currently mounted file systems.
 If no arguments are given to