65 lines
2.2 KiB
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65 lines
2.2 KiB
Groff
.TH HMOUNT 1 08-Nov-1997 HFSUTILS
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.SH NAME
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hmount \- introduce a new HFS volume and make it current
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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hmount
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.I source-path
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.RI [ partition-no ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B hmount
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is used to introduce a new HFS volume. A UNIX pathname to the volume's source
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must be specified. The source may be a block device or a regular file
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containing an HFS volume image.
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.PP
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If the source medium is partitioned, one partition must be selected to be
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mounted. If there is only one HFS partition on the medium, it will be selected
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by default. Otherwise, the desired partition number must be specified (as the
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ordinal
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.IR n th
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HFS partition) on the command-line. Partition number
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.B 0
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can be specified to refer to the entire medium, ignoring what might otherwise
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be perceived as a partition map, although in practice this is probably only
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useful if you want this command to fail when the medium is partitioned.
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.PP
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The mounted volume becomes "current" so subsequent commands will refer to it.
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The current working directory for the volume is set to the root of the volume.
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This information is kept in a file named
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.I .hcwd
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in the user's home directory.
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.PP
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If the source medium is changed (e.g. floppy or CD-ROM disc exchanged) after
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.B hmount
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has been called, subsequent HFS commands will fail until the original medium
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is replaced or a different volume is made current. To use the same source
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path with the different medium, reissue the
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.B hmount
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command.
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.SH EXAMPLES
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.SP
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.TP
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% hmount /dev/fd0
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If a Macintosh floppy disk is available as
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.BR /dev/fd0 ,
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this command makes the floppy current for other HFS commands such as hls(1),
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hcd(1), hcopy(1), etc.
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.TP
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% hmount /dev/sd2 1
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If a SCSI disk is available as
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.BR /dev/sd2 ,
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this command finds the first HFS partition on the medium and makes it
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available for other HFS operations.
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.SH NOTES
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.B hmount
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does not actually mount an HFS partition over a UNIX directory in the
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traditional mount(8) sense. It is merely a "virtual" mount, as a point of
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convenience for future HFS operations. Each HFS command independently opens,
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operates on, and closes the named source path given to
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.BR hmount .
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.SH SEE ALSO
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hfsutils(1), hformat(1), humount(1), hvol(1)
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.SH FILES
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$HOME/.hcwd
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.SH AUTHOR
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Robert Leslie <rob@mars.org>
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