Administrator Guide
Managing the File System
The S5000 switch can use the internal Flash, external Flash, or remote devices to store les.
The system stores les on the internal Flash by default but can be congured to store les elsewhere.
To view le system information, use the following command.
• View information about each le system.
EXEC Privilege mode
show file-systems
The output of the show file-systems command in the following example shows the total capacity, amount of free memory, le
structure, media type, read/write privileges for each storage device in use.
Dell#show file-systems
Size(b) Free(b) Feature Type Flags Prefixes
2143281152 2000785408 FAT32 USERFLASH rw flash:
15848660992 831594496 FAT32 USBFLASH rw usbflash:
- - - network rw ftp:
- - - network rw tftp:
- - - network rw scp:
You can change the default le system so that le management commands apply to a particular device or memory.
To change the default directory, use the following command.
• Change the default directory.
EXEC Privilege mode
cd directory
You can change the default storage location to the USB Flash. File management commands then apply to the USB Flash rather than the
internal Flash.
Dell#cd usbflash:
Dell#
copy running-config test
!
3998 bytes successfully copied
Dell#dir
Directory of usbflash:
1 drwx 4096 Jan 01 1980 00:00:00 +00:00 .
2 drwx 2048 May 02 2012 07:05:06 +00:00 ..
3 -rwx 1272 Apr 29 2011 16:15:14 +00:00 startup-config
4 -rwx 3998 May 11 2011 23:36:12 +00:00 test
Enabling Software Features on Devices Using a
Command Option
The capability to activate software applications or components on a device using a command is supported on this platform.
Starting with Release 9.4(0.0), you can enable or disable specic software features or applications that need to run on a device by using a
command attribute in the CLI interface. This enables eective, streamlined management and administration of applications and utilities that
run on a device. You can employ this capability to perform an on-demand activation, or turn-o a software component or protocol. A
feature conguration le generated for each image contains feature names, and denotes if this enabling or disabling method is available. You
can enable or disable the VRF application globally across the system by using this capability.
Activate the VRF application on a device by using the feature vrf command in CONFIGURATION mode.
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