Creating Case Sensitive Volumes on OS X

Posted: July 6, 2010 in Uncategorized

For future reference, seeing the OS X GUI tools aren’t too clear about this, here’s how to create a case-sensitive 5 GB volume using command line tools:


hdiutil create -megabytes 5000 -fs "Case-sensitive Journaled HFS+" -volname SomeName ~/SomeFileName

For encrypted volumes, add:


-encryption -stdinpass

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