Unmounting an xsan volume, Unmoun – Apple Xsan 1.4 User Manual

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Appendix B

Using the Command Line

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 mount point 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 mount point is mounted (usually /

Volumes/<vol>). For example:

$ sudo umount /Volumes/SanVol

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