diff --git a/bin/swift-get-nodes b/bin/swift-get-nodes
index cb46820c58..279f8d8262 100755
--- a/bin/swift-get-nodes
+++ b/bin/swift-get-nodes
@@ -123,17 +123,20 @@ for mnode in more_nodes:
         % (mnode['ip'], mnode['port'], mnode['device'], part,
            urllib.quote(target))
 print "\n"
+print 'Use your own device location of servers:'
+print 'such as "export DEVICE=/srv/node"'
 for node in nodes:
     if hash_str:
-        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah /srv/node/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/"' % (
+        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah ${DEVICE:-/srv/node}/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/"' % (
             node['ip'], node['device'], loc, part, hash_str[-3:], hash_str)
     else:
-        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah /srv/node/%s/%s/%s/"' % (
+        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah ${DEVICE:-/srv/node}/%s/%s/%s/"' % (
             node['ip'], node['device'], loc, part)
 for mnode in more_nodes:
     if hash_str:
-        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah /srv/node/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/" # [Handoff]' % (
-            mnode['ip'], mnode['device'], loc, part, hash_str[-3:], hash_str)
+        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah ${DEVICE:-/srv/node}/%s/%s/%s/%s/%s/" '\
+              '# [Handoff]' % (mnode['ip'], mnode['device'], loc, part,
+                               hash_str[-3:], hash_str)
     else:
-        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah /srv/node/%s/%s/%s/" # [Handoff]' % (
+        print 'ssh %s "ls -lah ${DEVICE:-/srv/node}/%s/%s/%s/" # [Handoff]' % (
             mnode['ip'], mnode['device'], loc, part)