NEWFS_HFS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NEWFS_HFS(8)
NAME
newfs_hfs -- construct a new HFS Plus file system
SYNOPSIS
newfs_hfs [-N [partition-size]] [-U uid] [-G gid] [-M mask] [-h | -w] [-s] [-b block-size]
[-c clump-size-list] [-i first-cnid] [-J [journal-size]] [-n node-size-list] [-v volume-name]
special
DESCRIPTION
Newfs_hfs builds an HFS Plus file system on the specified special device. Before running newfs_hfs the
disk should be partitioned using the Disk Utility application or pdisk(8).
The file system default parameters are calculated based on the size of the disk partition. Typically
the defaults are reasonable, however newfs_hfs has several options to allow the defaults to be selec-tively selectively
tively overridden. The options are as follows:
-N [partition-size]
Causes the file system parameters to be printed out without really creating the file sys-tem. system.
tem. The optional partition-size argument can be specified in bytes (with a `b' suffix),
petabytes (`p' suffix), terabytes (`t' suffix), gigabytes (`g' suffix), megabytes (`m' suf-fix), suffix),
fix), or kilobytes (`k' suffix). All suffixes indicate binary, not decimal, multipliers
(e.g., `1k' is 1024 bytes). If no suffix is specified, the value is assumed to be in
bytes; if an illegal suffix is specified, it results in a size of 0 bytes.
-U uid Set the owner of the file system's root directory to uid.
-G gid Set the group of the file system's root directory to gid.
-M mask Specify the octal access permissions mask for the file system's root directory.
-h Creates a legacy HFS format filesystem. This option is not recomended for file systems that
will be primarily used with Mac OS X or Darwin.
-s Creates a case-sensitive HFS Plus filesystem. By default a case-insensitive filesystem is
created. Case-sensitive HFS Plus file systems require a Mac OS X version of 10.3 (Darwin
7.0) or later.
-w Adds an HFS wrapper around the HFS Plus file system. This wrapper is required if the file
system will be used to boot natively into Mac OS 9.
-b block-size
The allocation block size of the file system. The default value is 4096.
-c clump-size-list
This specifies the clump and/or initial sizes, in allocation blocks, for the various meta-data metadata
data files. Clump sizes are specified with the -c option followed by a comma separated
list of the form arg=blocks.
Example: -c c=5000,e=500
a=blocks Set the attribute file clump size.
b=blocks Set the allocation bitmap file clump size.
c=blocks Set the catalog file clump size.
d=blocks Set the data fork clump size.
e=blocks Set the extent overflow file clump size.
g=blocks Set the maximum growable size of the hfs wrapper.
r=blocks Set the resource fork clump size.
-i first-cnid
This specifies the initial catalog node ID for user files and directories. The default
value is 16.
-J [journal-size]
Creates a journaled HFS+ volume. The default journal size is 8MB. Appending an 'M' to the
journal size implies megabytes (i.e. 64M is 64 megabytes). The maximum journal size is 512
megabytes.
-n node-size-list
This specifies the b-tree node sizes, in bytes, for the various b-tree files. Node sizes
are specified with the -n option followed by a comma separated list of the form arg=bytes.
The node size must be a power of two and no larger than 32768 bytes.
Example: -n c=8192,e=4096
a=bytes Set the attribute b-tree node size.
c=bytes Set the catalog b-tree node size.
e=bytes Set the extent overflow b-tree node size.
-v volume-name
Volume name (file system name) in ascii or UTF-8 format.
SEE ALSO
mount(8), pdisk(8)
HISTORY
The newfs_hfs command appeared in Mac OS X Server 1.0 .
Mac OS X April 1, 2003 Mac OS X
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