User Guide

Appendix B Using the Command Line 95
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/<vol>). 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/<volume>/log/cvlog
where <volume> is the name of the specific volume.
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