New hard disk has blank Mount Point

I recently installed a new disk which I am now using as my main HD.
From within System Profiler and also Disk Utility I have noticed that the mount point is blank, whereas the old HD disk had a mount point of '/Volumes/Macintosh HD'.
Is this OK? All seems to be OK with the new disk but I would like to confirm if I have to do anything else with the new disk.
Thanks.

The standard mount point for a startup volume is '/'. This isn't blank but the Unix terminology for a startup volume if you are running Disk Utility from the startup volume.

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