Apple Xsan 1.1 - Manual (Page 119)

Appendix B Using the Command Line 119
Mounting an Xsan Volume
You can use the mount command to mount an Xsan volume on a computer.
1 Either go to the computer and open Terminal, or use SSH to log in to the computer
remotely:
$ ssh user@computer
where user is a user account on the remote computer and computer is its IP address or
DNS name.
2 Create the mount point where the file system will be mounted:
$ mkdir mountpoint
where mountpoint is the directory where the file system is mounted (usually in
/Volumes ; for example /Volumes/SanVol ).
3 Mount the volume:
$ sudo mount -t acfs volume mountpoint
where
volume
is the name of the volume and
mountpoint
is the directory you created in
step 2. For example:
$ sudo mount -t acfs SanVol /Volumes/SanVol
Unmounting an Xsan Volume
You can use the umount command to unmount an Xsan volume on a computer.
1 Either go to the computer and open Terminal, or use SSH to log in to the computer
remotely:
$ ssh user@computer
where user is a user account on the remote computer and computer is its IP address or
DNS name.
2 Unmount the volume:
$ sudo umount mountpoint
where mountpoint is the directory where the volume is mounted (usually
/Volumes/ ). For example:
$ sudo umount /Volumes/SanVol
Viewing Logs
The system log to which Xsan writes information about SANs is in
/var/log/system.log
Volume logs are in
/Library/Filesystems/Xsan/data//log/cvlog
where is the name of the specific volume.