The short form of the --verbose option should probably be -v instead of -V This occurs both on the online man-page: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/mkfs.8.html and my local system (Ubuntu 12.04) man-page. -- http://dumaworks.com https://github.com/krmboya http://keyboardinterrupt.blogspot.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html