Quantum 3.5 manual Creating the automount.plist File

Creating the automount.plist File

Appendix B StorNext Administration Tasks

Connecting to a StorNext Network Using Xsan 1.4.2

sudo mount -t acfs fsname /Volumes/fsname (where <fsname> is the name of the file system). The SNFS filesystem should now be mounted on the OS X computer.

In order to mount the StorNext file system whenever the Macintosh client is rebooted, configure the automount.plist file. Xsan 1.4.2 uses the automount.plist file to mount SAN volumes.

1Use the command vi /Library/Filesystems/Xsan/config/automount.plist to create the automount.plist file.

2Copy and paste the text from the automount.plist template below into the file you just created.

3Change Volume_name to the name of your mounted file system.

The automount.plist Template

Copy and paste the text from the following template into the automount.plist file as described in step 2 above.

<?xml version=”1.0” encoding="UTF-8”?>

<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC “-//Apple Computer//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN” “http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd”>

<plist version=”1.0?> <dict> <key>Volume_name</key> <dict> <key>AutoMount</key> <string>rw</string> <key>MountOptions</key> <dict/>

</dict>

<key>Another_volume_name</key> <dict> <key>AutoMount</key> <string>rw</string> <key>MountOptions</key> <dict/>

</dict>

</dict>

</plist>

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