Formatting A Flash Card; Management Focus - Foundry Networks Switch and Router Installation And Configuration Manual

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Formatting a Flash Card

The flash cards shipped with Management IV modules are already formatted for the 16 FAT file system used by
the modules. If you want to use a flash card that is not formatted for the 16 FAT file system, you need to reformat
the flash card before you can store files on the card.
CAUTION: Make sure the flash card is empty or does not contain files you want to keep. Formatting a flash card
completely erases all files on the card.
CAUTION: Once you start the formatting process, you cannot stop it. Even if you enter CTRL-C to stop the CLI
output and display a new prompt, the formatting continues. Make sure you want to format the card before you
enter the command.
NOTE: When you reformat a flash card in the Management IV module, the formatting takes about ten minutes.
This is because the software checks every sector on the card, marks bad sectors if found, and skips over the bad
sectors so that the bad sectors do not interfere with use of the card. If you do not want to use the Management IV
module to reformat the card, you can use a PC with a flash card drive instead.
USING THE CLI
To reformat a flash card, enter the following command:
BigIron# format slot2
Formatting Flash Card(256 clusters per dot) ...........
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Verifying Flash Card(256 clusters per dot)
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80809984 bytes total card space.
80809984 bytes available on card.
2048 bytes in each allocation unit.
39458 allocation units available on card.
Flash card format done
As shown in this example, the software formats the sector on the flash card, then verifies the formatting. In this
example, the software did not find any bad sectors, so all the bytes on the card are available.
Syntax: format slot1 | slot2 [<label>]
The slot1 | slot2 parameter specifies the PCMCIA slot that contains the flash card you are formatting.
The <label> parameter specifies the label. You can specify up to 11 alphanumeric characters. You cannot use
special characters or spaces.
Determining the Flash Card Slot and Subdirectory Path That Currently Have the

Management Focus

If you are not sure which flash card slot and subdirectory path have the focus, use the following method to display
this information.
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