device-name Specifies the name of the device on which the volume to be initialized is physically mounted. The device name can also refer to the name of a mounted virtual device to be reinitialized. file-name For INITIALIZE/CREATE, file-name refers to the name of a file to be created and initialized as a virtual device. volume-label Specifies the identification to be written onto the volume header for RT-11 volumes only. The volume label can contain up to a maximum of 12 alphanumeric characters. The default is OpenVMS Exchange. Use quotation marks to specify a volume label with lowercase letters.