diff --git a/internal/catalogue/shares.go b/internal/catalogue/shares.go
index f23a5d17..87b56f3a 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/shares.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/shares.go
@@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ func nfsServerVerbs() []Verb {
 				"address": "a client's address on the private network (optional)",
 			}, []string{"share"}),
 			Replaces: []string{"showmount -e"}},
-		{Name: "reload", Description: "Write this machine's export file again from the module's settings and " +
-			"have the kernel take it. Changes no shared path.",
+		{Name: "reload", Description: "Have the kernel read this machine's export files again now (exportfs " +
+			"-ra) and answer the shares as it then holds them. The module's own process writes its export " +
+			"file; this is for after a change made outside it. Changes no shared path.",
 			Input:    schema(map[string]string{}, nil),
 			Replaces: []string{"exportfs -ra"}},
 		{Name: "adopt", Description: "Take over an export a person made by hand: clear a dataset's sharenfs " +
@@ -55,7 +56,7 @@ func nfsServerVerbs() []Verb {
 			"confirm, says what it would do and changes nothing.",
 			Input: schema(map[string]string{
 				"path":    "the shared path whose hand-made export is taken over",
-				"confirm": "true to change it; anything else is a dry run",
+				"confirm": "\"true\": change it (needs why); anything else is a dry run",
 				"why":     "why, for the record",
 			}, []string{"path"}, "confirm"),
 			Replaces: []string{"zfs set sharenfs=off"}},
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@ func mountsVerbs() []Verb {
 			"the mesh's automount for it is armed. Without confirm, says what it would do and changes nothing.",
 			Input: schema(map[string]string{
 				"mountpoint": "the mount point whose fstab line is taken over",
-				"confirm":    "true to change it; anything else is a dry run",
+				"confirm":    "\"true\": change it (needs why); anything else is a dry run",
 				"why":        "why, for the record",
 			}, []string{"mountpoint"}, "confirm"),
 			Replaces: []string{"sed -i /etc/fstab"}},
diff --git a/internal/catalogue/shares_test.go b/internal/catalogue/shares_test.go
index 51ef5ee9..5fbe0f10 100644
--- a/internal/catalogue/shares_test.go
+++ b/internal/catalogue/shares_test.go
@@ -126,3 +126,36 @@ func TestTheShareVerbsSayWhatTheyReplace(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("%s is not a verb of the compiled seats", verb)
 	}
 }
+
+// The confirm switch is the seat's string "true", as every verb's switch is, and its description says so:
+// a holder handed the boolean reading of "true to change it" would treat the string as a dry run.
+func TestTheConfirmSwitchIsTheStringTrue(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, seat := range []string{NFSServerSeat, MountsSeat} {
+		s, _ := SeatNamed(seat)
+		for _, v := range s.Serves {
+			props, _ := v.Input["properties"].(map[string]any)
+			confirm, _ := props["confirm"].(map[string]any)
+			if confirm == nil {
+				continue
+			}
+			if confirm["type"] != "string" {
+				t.Errorf("%s.%s confirm is %v, not the string switch", seat, v.Name, confirm["type"])
+			}
+			if d, _ := confirm["description"].(string); !strings.Contains(d, `"true"`) {
+				t.Errorf("%s.%s confirm does not name the string \"true\": %q", seat, v.Name, d)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// reload has the kernel read the export files; the module's process writes its file. The description
+// must not promise a write it does not do.
+func TestReloadSaysWhatItDoes(t *testing.T) {
+	s, _ := SeatNamed(NFSServerSeat)
+	for _, v := range s.Serves {
+		if v.Name == "reload" && (strings.Contains(v.Description, "Write this machine's export file") ||
+			!strings.Contains(v.Description, "exportfs")) {
+			t.Errorf("reload's description promises a write or does not name exportfs: %s", v.Description)
+		}
+	}
+}