MOUNT_APFS(8)						    BSD System Manager's Manual 					     MOUNT_APFS(8)

NAME

     mount_apfs -- mount an APFS volume

SYNOPSIS

     mount_apfs [-o options] [-u user] [-g group] special directory
     mount_apfs [-o options] -s snapshot pathname directory

DESCRIPTION

     The mount_apfs command attaches the APFS volume indicated by the device special to the global file system namespace at the location indicated
     by directory.  This command is normally executed by diskarbitrationd(8) or mount(8) at boot time.

     The special parameter should be the path to an APFS pseudo disk device node, such as /dev/disk0s2s1 (which is a volume inside the container
     /dev/disk0s2), which can also be specified as simply disk0s2s1.

     The options are as follows:

     -o options    Options passed to mount(2) are specified with the -o option followed by a comma separated string of options. See the mount(8)
		   man page for possible options and their meanings.

     -u user	   Set the owner of the files in the file system to user.  The default owner is the owner of the directory on which the file
		   system is being mounted.  The user may be a user-name, or a numeric value.

     -g group	   Set the group of the files in the file system to group.  The default group is the group of the directory on which the file
		   system is being mounted.  The group may be a group-name, or a numeric value.

     -s snapshot   The name of the snapshot to mount.  In this usage pathname is the mounted root directory of the base volume containing the
		   snapshot.

DIAGNOSTICS

     The mount_apfs utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

SEE ALSO

     mount(2), unmount(2), fstab(5), mount(8)

HISTORY

     The mount_apfs utility first appeared in OS X 10.12.

Mac OS X							September 16, 2015							  Mac OS X