Formatting A Compact Flash Card - Dell Force10 E300 Installing And Maintaining

Formatting a Compact Flash Card

New Compact Flash cards must be formatted in the E300 before use.
Flash cards used on systems other than the E300, as well as cards formatted on PCs, must be reformatted
in the E300 flash slot before they can be used. Similar to formatting a new diskette, formatting erases all
information stored on the flash card.
The Compact Flash supports 100 files. To format the Compact Flash card:
Step Task
Insert the flash card into the flash slot on the primary RPM.
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In the CLI, enter format slot0:
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The formatted flash card is ready to use.
FTOS supports up to a 40-character file name length, up to a 180-character local file path length, and up
to a 256-character remote file path length.
Refer to the <ItalicText>FTOS Command Line Interface Reference for more CLI commands related to
the Compact Flash card.
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