Mount options¶

When mounting an HFSPlus filesystem, the following options are accepted:

creator=cccc, type=cccc

Specifies the creator/type values as shown by the MacOS finderused for creating new files. Default values: ‘????’.

uid=n, gid=n

Specifies the user/group that owns all files on the filesystemthat have uninitialized permissions structures.Default: user/group id of the mounting process.

umask=n

Specifies the umask (in octal) used for files and directoriesthat have uninitialized permissions structures.Default: umask of the mounting process.

session=n

Select the CDROM session to mount as HFSPlus filesystem. Defaults toleaving that decision to the CDROM driver. This option will failwith anything but a CDROM as underlying devices.

part=n

Select partition number n from the devices. This option only makessense for CDROMs because they can’t be partitioned under Linux.For disk devices the generic partition parsing code does thisfor us. Defaults to not parsing the partition table at all.

decompose

Decompose file name characters.

nodecompose

Do not decompose file name characters.

force

Used to force write access to volumes that are marked as journalledor locked. Use at your own risk.

nls=cccc

Encoding to use when presenting file names.

References¶

kernel source: <file:fs/hfsplus>

Apple Technote 1150https://developer.apple.com/legacy/library/technotes/tn/tn1150.html