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File System Commands on Cisco IOS XR Software
C i s c o C o n f i d e n t i a l - B e t a R e v i e w R 3 . 7. 1
Caution Formatting a storage device deletes all data on that device.
The file systems that are available on the router and the formatting options available for file systems
Note
differ according to platform.
Use the online help (?) function to display the file systems available to be formatted on the router and
the formatting options available for a file system.
Disk0: and disk1: can be partitioned into two partitions each: disk0: and disk0a:, disk1: and disk1a:. The
harddisk: can be partitioned into three partitions: harddisk:, harddiska:, and harddiskb:. The primary
partitions are used to store critical data. The secondary partitions are used to store noncritical data.
If you partition disk0:, disk1: or the compactflash:, the size of the partitions are as indicated in
Table 24
Size of Disk
less than 900 MB
900 MB to 1.5 GB
1.5 GB to 3 GB
more than 3 GB
The size of the three hard disk partitions are as follows:
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•
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Task ID Task ID
root-lr (EXEC)
root-system (administration EXEC)
Examples The following example shows how to format disk1:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# format disk1:
The following example shows how to format disk1 with instructions to recover any sectors on the device
that have read errors:
RP/0/RP0/CPU0:router# format disk1: recover
This format operation will try to recover sectors with read error
This operation may take a while. Continue? [confirm]
Format will destroy all data on "disk1:". Continue? [confirm]
Note When the console returns to the EXEC prompt, the new flash disk has been formatted and is ready for
use.
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Size of Disk Partitions in Relation to Size of Disk
Primary Partition Percentage
Partitioning not supported
80%
60%
50%
Primary partition (harddisk:)—30%
Secondary partition (harddiska:)—60%
Third partition (harddiskb:)—10%
Operations
execute
execute
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Secondary Partition Percentage
Partitioning not supported
20%
40%
50%
format
Table 24:
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