If you want me to send this to dev tracker, let me know.
$ mkfs --help
Usage:
mkfs [options] [-t <type>] [fs-options] <device> [<size>]
Make a Linux filesystem.
Options:
-t, --type=<type> filesystem type; when unspecified, ext2 is used
fs-options parameters for the real filesystem builder
<device> path to the device to be used
<size> number of blocks to be used on the device
-V, --verbose explain what is being done;
specifying -V more than once will cause a dry-run
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version display version
Notice the two capital -V's?
Neither one works.
--verbose does not work but -v (small v) works--see below:
mkfs.vfat --verbose /dev/sdb
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
mkfs.vfat: unrecognized option '--verbose'
Unknown option: ?
Usage: mkfs.fat [-a][-A][-c][-C][-v][-I][-l bad-block-file][-b backup-boot-sector]
[-m boot-msg-file][-n volume-name][-i volume-id]
[-s sectors-per-cluster][-S logical-sector-size][-f number-of-FATs]
[-h hidden-sectors][-F fat-size][-r root-dir-entries][-R reserved-sectors]
[-M FAT-media-byte][-D drive_number]
[--invariant]
[--help]
/dev/name [blocks]
AND
mkfs.vfat -V /dev/sdb
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
mkfs.vfat: invalid option -- 'V'
--help shows --verbose and -V as functional for verbose output. Neither are functional.
The contrary info under usage a few ^^ lines up confirms the -v (if, indeed the -v means verbose here).
So the two -V's are inaccurate. The --verbose is unrecognized as a command even though it is listed as a command. Verbose is also not -V as stated in --help, it is actually -v.
Took me some trial and error, you can see the results:
mkfs.vfat -v /dev/sdb
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)
Auto-selecting FAT32 for large filesystem
/dev/sdb has 255 heads and 63 sectors per track,
hidden sectors 0x0000;
logical sector size is 512,
using 0xf8 media descriptor, with 16259160 sectors;
drive number 0x80;
filesystem has 2 32-bit FATs and 8 sectors per cluster.
FAT size is 15848 sectors, and provides 2028429 clusters.
There are 32 reserved sectors.
Volume ID is 7afexyz, no volume label.
I get this feeling this probably has nothing to do with Solus...so apologies for that.
