Apple Xsan 1.4 - Manual (Page 175)

Appendix B Using the Command Line 175
Example
Allocate 2 GB of space for the file “data1” on the storage pool “datasets”:
$ cvmkfile -k datasets 2g data1
Initializing a Volume (cvmkfs)
You can use the cvmkfs command to initialize an Xsan volume based
on the information in the corresponding configuration file for the volume
(in /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/<vol>.cfg).
$ cvmkfs [-G] [-F] [volume]
Warning: Initializing a volume destroys all existing data on the volume.
Parameter Description
-G Don’t display “Press return to continue” prompts.
-F Don’t display warning and verification prompts. Use this
parameter with caution.
volume The name of the volume to initialize. This name matches the
name of a configuration (.cfg) file in /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/
config/.