Pcmcia Flash Card File System - Dell PowerConnect B-RX Configuration Manual

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Flash memory and PCMCIA flash card file management commands
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PCMCIA flash card file system

The PCMCIA flash card file system is hierarchical, which means that it supports subdirectories.
Therefore, you can create or delete subdirectories in this file system using the md or mkdir and rd
or rmdir commands, respectively. Also, when specifying the syntax for the various file management
commands, you may need to specify a pathname to a subdirectory as appropriate to manipulate a
file in a subdirectory.
PCMCIA flash card subdirectories
The full path name for a file's location can be a maximum of 256 characters. You can nest
subdirectories as deep as you want as long as the full path name is 256 characters or less.
When you include a subdirectory path in a file management command, use a slash between each
level. For example, to create a subdirectory for flash code and copy a flash image file to the
subdirectory, enter commands such as the following.
BigIron RX# mkdir slot1 /switchCode/initial-release
These commands create two levels of subdirectories on the flash card in PCMCIA slot 1.
File and subdirectory naming conventions
The PCMCIA slots supports file names of up to . File names are not case sensitive. Thus, the
software considers the name "test.cfg" and "TEST.CFG" to be the same.
Files and subdirectory names can be up to 32 characters long, including spaces and the special
characters listed. The following characters are valid in file and subdirectory names:
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All digits
Any of the following special characters:
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BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide
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