Cisco WS-C2960-24TC-S Software Guide - Page 648

Working with the Flash File System Appendix B Working with the Cisco IOS File System, Configuration Files, and Software Images Creating and Removing Directories Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to create and remove a directory: Command Step 1 dir filesystem: Step 2 mkdir old_configs Step 3 dir filesystem: Purpose Display the directories on the specified file system. For filesystem:, use flash: for the system board flash device. Create a new directory. The command example shows how to create the directory named old_configs. Directory names are case sensitive. Directory names are limited to 45 characters between the slashes (/); the name cannot contain control characters, spaces, deletes, slashes, quotes, semicolons, or colons. Verify your entry. To delete a directory with all its files and subdirectories, use the delete /force /recursive filesystem:/file-url privileged EXEC command. Use the /recursive keyword to delete the named directory and all subdirectories and the files contained in it. Use the /force keyword to suppress the prompting that confirms a deletion of each file in the directory. You are prompted only once at the beginning of this deletion process. Use the /force and /recursive keywords for deleting old software images that were installed by using the archive download-sw command but are no longer needed. For filesystem, use flash: for the system board flash device. For file-url, enter the name of the directory to be deleted. All the files in the directory and the directory are removed. Caution When files and directories are deleted, their contents cannot be recovered. Copying Files To copy a file from a source to a destination, use the copy source-url destination-url privileged EXEC command. For the source and destination URLs, you can use running-config and startup-config keyword shortcuts. For example, the copy running-config startup-config command saves the currently running configuration file to the NVRAM section of flash memory to be used as the configuration during system initialization. You can also copy from special file systems (xmodem:, ymodem:) as the source for the file from a network machine that uses the Xmodem or Ymodem protocol. Network file system URLs include ftp:, rcp:, and tftp: and have these syntaxes: • FTP-ftp:[[//username [:password]@location]/directory]/filename • RCP-rcp:[[//username@location]/directory]/filename • TFTP-tftp:[[//location]/directory]/filename Local writable file systems include flash:. Catalyst 2960 Switch Software Configuration Guide B-4 OL-8603-04