On Fri, Nov 13, 2015, at 23:24, Barry Vos wrote: > The man-page mkfs(8) mentions that the option -V equates to --verbose. > I think this should be -v instead. Well, no. A leading -V gets consumed by the mkfs program itself; a -v gets passed on to the filesystem-specific helper program. Try it: mkfs -V somefile mkfs -V -v somefile mkfs -v somefile mkfs -v -V somefile Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- 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
