Cisco Systems 0L-11350-01 Working with the Flash File System

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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter20 Managing Firmware and Configurations
Working with the Flash File System
Working with the Flash File System
The Flash file system on your access point provides several commands to help you manage software
image and configuration files.
The Flash file system is a single Flash device on which you can store files. This Flash device is called
flash:.
This section contains this information:
•Displaying Available File Systems, page20-2
•Setting the Default File System, page20-3
•Displaying Information About Files on a File System, page20-3
•Changing Directories and Displaying the Working Directory, page20-4
•Creating and Removing Directories, page20-4
•Copying Files, page20-5
•Deleting Files, page 20-5
•Creating, Displaying, and Extracting tar Files, page20-6
•Displaying the Contents of a File, page 20-8
Displaying Available File Systems
To display the available file systems on your access point, use the show file systems privileged EXEC
command as shown in this example:
ap# show file systems
File Systems:
Size(b) Free(b) Type Flags Prefixes
* 16128000 11118592 flash rw flash:
16128000 11118592 unknown rw zflash:
32768 26363 nvram rw nvram:
- - network rw tftp:
- - opaque rw null:
- - opaque rw system:
- - opaque ro xmodem:
- - opaque ro ymodem:
- - network rw rcp:
- - network rw ftp:
Table20-1 lists field descriptions for the show file systems command.
Table20-1 show file systems Field Descriptions
Field Value
Size(b) Amount of memory in the file system in bytes.
Free(b) Amount of free memory in the file system in bytes.