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] [-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 selectively overridden. The options are as follows:
-N Causes the file system parameters to be printed out without really creating the file system.
-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 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 metadata 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.
e=blocks Set the extent overflow file 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 fol-
lowed 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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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] [-U uid] [-G gid] [-M mask] [-P] [-s] [-b block-size] [-c clump-size-list] [-i first-cnid] [-J [journal-size]]
[-D journal-device] [-n node-size-list] [-v volume-name] special
newfs_hfs -N partition-size [-U uid] [-G gid] [-M mask] [-P] [-h | -w] [-s] [-b block-size] [-c clump-size-list] [-i first-cnid]
[-J [journal-size]] [-D journal-device] [-n node-size-list] [-v volume-name]
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 selectively overridden. The options are as follows:
-N [partition-size]
Causes the file system parameters to be printed out without really creating the file system. If the argument following the -N
starts with a decimal digit, it is assumed to be a partition size. The paritition size may be given in decimal, octal (with
leading `0'), or hexadecimal (with leading `0x'). The partition size argument can be specified in 512-byte blocks (with a `b'
suffix), petabytes (`p' suffix), terabytes (`t' suffix), gigabytes (`g' suffix), megabytes (`m' suffix), or kilobytes (`k' suf-
fix). 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.
If the partition size is given, then no special device argument shall be provided. If no partition size is given, then the size
of the given special device is used instead, and the special device will not be written to.
-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.
-P Set kHFSContentProtectionBit in the volume's attributes, which will cause the volume to be mounted with the "protect" option if
the kernel supports it.
-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.
-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 metadata 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.
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.
-I initial-size-list
This specifies the initial size, in allocation blocks, for the various metadata files. Initial sizes are specified with the -I
option followed by a comma separated list of the form arg=blocks.
Example: -I c=5000,e=500
a=blocks Set the initial attribute file size.
c=blocks Set the initial catalog file size.
e=blocks Set the initial extent overflow file size.
-J [journal-size]
Creates a journaled HFS+ volume. The default journal size varies, based on the size of the volume. Appending an 'M' to the
journal size implies megabytes (i.e. 64M is 64 megabytes). The maximum journal size is 1024 megabytes.
-D journal-device
Creates the journal on special device journal-device.
-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 fol-
lowed 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 . As of Mac OS X 10.6, this utility no longer generates HFS standard file systems.
Mac OS X June 19, 2008 Mac OS X