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>