HFS+

The filesystem HFS+ is Article description::the native filesystem of Mac OS 8.1+ and Mac OS X up to 10.12 Sierra; Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system with a BSD core. Up to Version 10.5 Leopard it can 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. It includes mkfs and fsck.

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 /, instead the provided utilities provide limited access to the filesystem.

Select the partition with hpmount.

On the selected partition, the commands hp[ls|pwd|mkdir|cd|copy|rm] can be used for file operations, instead of Unix "/" for directories the colon ":" has to be used. E.g. /dir/to/file will be :dir:to:file for the specified commands.

The partition is released with the hpumount utility.