hmount(1) [debian man page]
HMOUNT(1) General Commands Manual HMOUNT(1) NAME
hmount - introduce a new HFS volume and make it current SYNOPSIS
hmount source-path [partition-no] DESCRIPTION
hmount is used to introduce a new HFS volume. A UNIX pathname to the volume's source must be specified. The source may be a block device or a regular file containing an HFS volume image. If the source medium is partitioned, one partition must be selected to be mounted. If there is only one HFS partition on the medium, it will be selected by default. Otherwise, the desired partition number must be specified (as the ordinal nth HFS partition) on the command- line. Partition number 0 can be specified to refer to the entire medium, ignoring what might otherwise be perceived as a partition map, although in practice this is probably only useful if you want this command to fail when the medium is partitioned. The mounted volume becomes "current" so subsequent commands will refer to it. The current working directory for the volume is set to the root of the volume. This information is kept in a file named .hcwd in the user's home directory. If the source medium is changed (e.g. floppy or CD-ROM disc exchanged) after hmount has been called, subsequent HFS commands will fail until the original medium is replaced or a different volume is made current. To use the same source path with the different medium, reissue the hmount command. EXAMPLES
% hmount /dev/fd0 If a Macintosh floppy disk is available as /dev/fd0, this command makes the floppy current for other HFS commands such as hls(1), hcd(1), hcopy(1), etc. % hmount /dev/sd2 1 If a SCSI disk is available as /dev/sd2, this command finds the first HFS partition on the medium and makes it available for other HFS operations. NOTES
hmount does not actually mount an HFS partition over a UNIX directory in the traditional mount(8) sense. It is merely a "virtual" mount, as a point of convenience for future HFS operations. Each HFS command independently opens, operates on, and closes the named source path given to hmount. SEE ALSO
hfsutils(1), hformat(1), humount(1), hvol(1) FILES
$HOME/.hcwd AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> HFSUTILS
08-Nov-1997 HMOUNT(1)
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HFSUTILS(1) General Commands Manual HFSUTILS(1) NAME
hfsutils - tools for reading and writing Macintosh HFS volumes SYNOPSIS
hattrib - change HFS file or directory attributes hcd - change working HFS directory hcopy - copy files from or to an HFS volume hdel - delete both forks of an HFS file hdir - display an HFS directory in long format hformat - create a new HFS filesystem and make it current hls - list files in an HFS directory hmkdir - create a new HFS directory hmount - introduce a new HFS volume and make it current hpwd - print the full path to the current HFS working directory hrename - rename or move an HFS file or directory hrmdir - remove an empty HFS directory humount - remove an HFS volume from the list of known volumes hvol - display or change the current HFS volume hfssh - Tcl interpreter with HFS extensions hfs - shell for manipulating HFS volumes xhfs - graphical interface for manipulating HFS volumes DESCRIPTION
hfsutils is a collection of tools and programs for accessing Macintosh HFS-formatted volumes. See the accompanying man page for each pro- gram above for more information. NOTES
These utilities can manipulate HFS volumes on nearly any medium. A UNIX path is initially specified to hmount or hformat which gives the location of the volume. This path can be a block device -- corresponding to, for example, a floppy disk, CD-ROM, SCSI disk, or other device -- or it can be a regular file containing an image of any of the above. The medium specified by the UNIX path may or may not contain an Apple partition map. If partitioned, it is possible for more than one HFS volume to be present on the medium. In this case, a partition number must also be given which selects the desired partition. This number refers to the nth ordinal HFS partition on the volume. (Other, non-HFS partitions are ignored.) Partition number 0 refers to the entire medium, disregarding the partition map, if any. HFS pathnames consist of colon-separated components. Unlike UNIX pathnames, an HFS path which begins with a colon (e.g. :Foo:Bar) is a rel- ative path, and one which does not (e.g. Foo:Bar) is an absolute path. As sole exception to this rule, a path not containing any colons is assumed to be relative. Absolute pathnames always begin with the name of the volume itself. Any occurrence of two or more consecutive colons in a path causes reso- lution of the path to ascend into parent directories. Most of the command-line programs support HFS filename globbing. The following forms of globbing are supported: * matches zero or more characters. ? matches exactly one character. [...] matches any single character enclosed within the brackets. A character range may be specified by using a hypen (-). Note that matches are not case sensitive. {...,...} expands into the Cartesian product of each specified substring. causes the following character to be matched literally. Note that since globbing is performed by each HFS command rather than by the UNIX shell (which knows nothing about HFS volumes), care should always be taken to protect pathnames from the shell by using an appropriate quoting technique. Typically it is best to surround HFS pathnames containing glob characters with single quotes ('). Time stamps on HFS volumes are interpreted as being relative to the current time zone. This means that modification dates on HFS volumes written in another time zone may appear to be off by some number of hours. Hardware limitations prevent some systems from reading or writing native Macintosh 800K floppy disks; only high-density 1440K disks can be used on these systems. The obsolete MFS volume format is not supported by this software. SEE ALSO
hattrib(1), hcd(1), hcopy(1), hdel(1), hdir(1), hformat(1), hls(1), hmkdir(1), hmount(1), hpwd(1), hrename(1), hrmdir(1), hvol(1), hfs(1), xhfs(1) AUTHOR
Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org> HFSUTILS
08-Nov-1997 HFSUTILS(1)