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Working with the Cisco IOS File System,

Configuration Files, and Software Images

This appendix describes how to manipulate the switch flash file system, how to copy configuration files,
and how to archive (upload and download) software images to a switch or to a switch stack.
Unless otherwise noted, the term switch refers to a standalone switch and to a switch stack.
Note For complete syntax and usage information for the commands used in this chapter, see the switch
command reference for this release and the Cisco IOS Configuration Fundamentals Command
Reference, Release 12.2.
This appendix consists of these sections:
Working with the Flash File System, pageB-1
Working with Configuration Files, page B-9
Working with Software Images, page B-24

Working with the Flash File System

The flash file system is a single flash device on which you can store files. It also provides several
commands to help you manage software image and configuration files. The default flash file system on
the switch is named flash:.
As viewed from the stack master, or any stack member, flash: refers to the local flash device, which is
the device attached to the same switch on which the file system is being viewed. In a switch st ack , ea ch
of the flash devices from the various stack members can be v iewed from the stack master. The names of
these flash file systems include the corresponding switch member num be rs. For exampl e, fla sh3:, as
viewed from the stack master, refers to the same file system as does flash: on stack member 3. Use the
show file systems privileged EXEC command to list all file systems, including the flash file systems in
the switch stack.
No more than one user at a time can manage the software images and configuration files for a switch
stack.