C H A P T E R 7

Managing Firmware and Configurations

This chapter describes how to manipulate the flash file system, how to copy configuration files, and how to archive (upload and download) software images. It consists of these sections:

Working with the Flash File System, page 7-1

Working with Configuration Files, page 7-7

Working with Software Images, page 7-18

Working with the Flash File System

The flash file system on your WMIC 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 provides information on the following topics:

Displaying Available File Systems, page 7-1

Setting the Default File System, page 7-2

Displaying Information About Files on a File System, page 7-3

Changing Directories and Displaying the Working Directory, page 7-3

Creating and Removing Directories, page 7-3

Copying Files, page 7-4

Deleting Files, page 7-5

Creating, Displaying, and Extracting tar Files, page 7-5

Displaying the Contents of a File, page 7-7

Displaying Available File Systems

To display the available file systems on your WMIC, use the show file systems command as shown in this example:

bridge# show file systems File Systems:

 

Size(b)

Free(b)

Type Flags Prefixes

 

 

 

Cisco 3200 Series Router Hardware Reference

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

OL-5816-10

 

 

 

7-1

 

 

 

 

 

 

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3200 specifications

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