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]]
[-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]] [-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' suffix). All suffixes indicate binary, not
decimal, multipliers (e.g., `1k' is 1024 bytes). If no suf-
fix 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 argu-
ment 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 sys-
tem'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.
-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.
-n node-size-list
This specifies the b-tree node sizes, in bytes, for the vari-
ous 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 . 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
Mac OS X 10.8 - Generated Tue Sep 4 06:49:20 CDT 2012