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diff --git a/tests/chown/basic b/tests/chown/basic
index 0614f7090..5626029ae 100755
--- a/tests/chown/basic
+++ b/tests/chown/basic
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@ chown -R --preserve-root 0:1 f
# Make sure the owner and group are 0 and 1 respectively.
set _ `ls -n f`; shift; test "$3:$4" = 0:1 || fail=1
+# Make sure the correct diagnostic is output
+# Note we output a name even though an id was specified.
+chown -v --from=42 43 f > out || fail=1
+printf "ownership of \`f' retained as `id -nu`\n" > exp
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
+# Ensure diagnostics work for non existent files.
+chown -v 0 nf > out && fail=1
+printf "failed to change ownership of \`nf' to 0\n" > exp
+compare out exp || fail=1
+
chown --from=0:1 2:010 f || fail=1
# And now they should be 2 and 10 respectively.