HFS+

The filesystem HFS+, also HFS Plus or Extended Hierarchical File System, is Article description::the native filesystem of Mac OS 8.1+ and Mac OS X up to 10.12 Sierra from Apple for Mac computers. It is per design case-insensitive, but there is an optional case-sensitive variant as well.

Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system with a BSD core. Up to Version 10.5 Leopard it can run on PowerPC and starting from Version 10.4 Tiger it runs on x86. It was renamed to OS X with version 10.18 Mountain Lion and to macOS with version 10.12 Sierra, which is the last to use HFS+ as the primary filesystem of the base installation. Its successor is APFS.

Kernel
On PowerPC-based Macs it is recommended to also select support for the Apple Partition Map (APM), on Intel-based Macs the GUID Partition Table (GPT) is used.

diskdev_cmds
The package is a port of HFS/HFS+ utilities from OpenDarwin, the BSD core operating system of macOS (formally Mac OS X). It includes the and  userspace utilities.

The commands have names common to OpenDarwin: and. The package creates symlinks to and. To create a new filesystem on a partition, e.g. on, use:

hfsplusutils
The package was traditionally used on PowerPC based Macs. It provides utilities similar to those for HFS from the package.

With a filesystem isn't mounted as part of, instead the provided utilities allow limited access to the filesystem.

Select the partition with :

On the selected partition, the commands can be used for file operations, instead of Unix "/" for directories the colon ":" has to be used. E.g. will be  for the specified commands.

The partition is released with the utility.