3Com Switch 8800 Configuration Guide Chapter 43 File System Management
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Chapter 43 File System Management 43.1 File System Configuration
43.1.1 File System Overview
The Ethernet switch provides a file system module for user’s efficient management
over the storage devices such as flash memory. The file system offers file access and
directory management, mainly including creating the file system, creating, deleting,
modifying and renaming a file or a directory and opening a file.
By default, the file system needs user’s confirmation before executing the commands,
such as deleting or overwriting a file, which may make losses.
Based on the operated objects, the file system operation can be divided as follows. The
following sections describe the file system configuration tasks.
z Directory Operation
z File Operation
z Storage Device Operation
z Note: The error message “% Device can’t be found or file can’t be found in the
directory” can indicate that the CF card is not formatted.
z Setting the Prompt Mode of the File System
Note:
The Switch 8800 supports master board and slave board. The two boards both have
file system. User can operate the file on the two boards. In the case user operate the
file on slave board, the file directory or URL should be started with “slot[No.]#flash:/”,
the [No.] is the slave board number. For example, suppose slot 1 is slave board,
“text.txt” file URL on slave board should be “slot1#flash:/text.txt”.
Note:
The limitation on the names of directories and files on switch are as follows:
z The name of one direction or file can be up to 64 characters long.
z The total number of characters including device, directory and file names can be up
to 136 characters long.