Cisco Systems 10008 quick start Managing the File Systems, CLI Name Description

9Managing the File Systems

This section describes the file systems used on the Cisco 10008 router and provides procedures for performing basic file system tasks.

File Systems

The Cisco 10008 router includes the file systems described in the following table.

Table 3	File Systems
File System		CLI Name	Description
Bootflash		bootflash:	Stores image and dump files.
Secondary bootflash		sec-bootflash:
NVRAM		nvram:	Typically stores the system default configuration file and startup
Secondary NVRAM		sec-nvram:	configuration file.
System		system:	Stores the running configuration and other system files.
Disk 0		disk0:	Disk refers to an ATA Flash disk (48 or 128 MB).
Disk 1		disk1:
			Slot refers to a Flash card (8, 16, or 20 MB).
Slot 0		slot0:	0 refers to the left slot on the PRE.
Slot 1		slot1:	1 refers to the right slot on the PRE.
Secondary Disk 0		sec-disk0:	Secondary refers to the secondary PRE in a redundant system.
		sec-disk1:
Secondary Disk 1
		sec-slot0:
Secondary Slot 0
		sec-slot1:
Secondary Slot 1
FTP		ftp:	Protocols used for accessing files that are stored remotely.
TFTP		tftp:
RCP		rcp:

Flash disks and the smaller Flash cards use similar commands. The primary syntax change is that disk0: or disk1: refers to Flash

disks, and slot0: or slot1: refers to Flash cards.

You can use the privileged EXEC commands dir, del, and copy to manage the contents of the file systems. You can also use the commands mkdir and rmdir to create and remove directories on Flash disks. You cannot use the commands squeeze and undelete on Flash disks. For more information, refer to the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Configuration Guide.

Copying the Startup Configuration to the Running Configuration

Use the copy startup-configrunning-configcommand to copy the startup configuration file on NVRAM to the running configuration. If your startup configuration file is approaching the NVRAM limit of 512 KB, you must either compress it or relocate it as described in the “Managing Configuration Files Larger than NVRAM” section on page 42.

Tip If your configuration file is large, run the copy startup-configrunning-configcommand during off-peak hours. This command might slow down traffic for several minutes while the system is merging the starting and the running configurations.

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