hfsplus(7)

📦 version 1.0.4, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💅 HFS+ (hfsplus) — the manual, but make it make sense ✨

okay bestie, sit down, grab a boba, because we're talking about hfsplus — it's a whole set of tools to access HFS+ file systems, and no, you don't need a Mac to touch them 🍓

🌸 NAME 🌸

hfsplus — a set of tools to access HFS+ file systems. that's it, that's the name, short and iconic 👑

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So. HFS+, aka the Macintosh Extended Format, was introduced by Apple Computer in 1998 when they dropped MacOS 8.1. it's giving glow-up era 💖 It contains many improvements over the old HFS file system, but the one that really ate is the ability to allocate up to 2^64 blocks — which means much more efficient storage of many small files on large disks. like, your 10,000 tiny files can finally breathe. periodt ✨

The hfsplus collection lets you access volumes formatted with the HFS+ file system from Debian GNU/Linux and related operating systems. The collection contains tools to:

  • mount and unmount HFS+ volumes 🫶
  • change and list directories 📂
  • copy files to and from HFS+ volumes 📋
⚠️ lowkey important note: unlike its cousin, the hfsutils collection used for accessing HFS file systems, hfsplus does not use the Macintosh pathname syntax with ":" as delimiter. no ma'am 💀 Instead, it mimics the unix notation, delimiting the names of volumes, directories and files in a path with "/" — and it also understands "." and ".." to some extent. so it's basically bilingual, iykyk 🌈

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

go read these too, they're the whole friend group 💜

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

This manual page was written by Jens Schmalzing <jensen@debian.org> for Debian GNU/Linux, using the manual page by Klaus Halfmann <halfmann@libra.de> that comes with the source code and documentation from the Tech Info Library. credit where credit is due, besties 🫡💖

and that's the whole page, no cap 🌟 it's from the hfsplus(7) page in the Miscellaneous Information Manual. mwah, slay, go mount something 💅✨

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