diff --git a/releng/test_hardlinks b/releng/test_hardlinks
index 3e1d34b3..9776253d 100755
--- a/releng/test_hardlinks
+++ b/releng/test_hardlinks
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export failure=0
 export next_is_xorriso=0
 export next_is_rc=0
 export bad=0
-
+export report_about="-report_about UPDATE"
 
 config_by_var() {
   # This is called once before option interpretation, and once for each
@@ -100,8 +100,11 @@ do
   elif test x"$i" = x"-xorriso"
   then
     next_is_xorriso=1
+  elif test x"$i" = x"-v"
+  then
+    report_about="-report_about ALL"
   else
-    echo "Usage: $0 [-rc FILE] [-keep] [-cleanup] [-xorriso PATH]" >&2
+    echo "Usage: $0 [-rc FILE] [-keep] [-cleanup] [-xorriso PATH] [-v]" >&2
     exit 2
   fi
 done
@@ -144,6 +147,7 @@ ls -l "$on_disk"/*
 
 echo "=== Producing simple image" >&2
 "$xorriso" \
+  $report_about \
   -version \
   -for_backup \
   -padding 0 \
@@ -153,6 +157,7 @@ echo "=== Producing simple image" >&2
 
 echo "=== Copying from image to temporary disk tree" >&2
 "$xorriso" \
+  $report_about \
   -for_backup \
   -indev "$image_file" \
   -osirrox on \