BigIron RX Series Configuration Guide 3953-1002253-01Flash memory and PCMCIA flash card file management commands 3PCMCIA flash card file systemThe 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 rdor rmdir commands, respectively. Also, when specifying the syntax for the various file managementcommands, you may need to specify a pathname to a subdirectory as appropriate to manipulate afile in a subdirectory.PCMCIA flash card subdirectoriesThe full path name for a file’s location can be a maximum of 256 characters. You can nestsubdirectories 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 eachlevel. For example, to create a subdirectory for flash code and copy a flash image file to thesubdirectory, enter commands such as the following.BigIron RX# mkdir slot1 /switchCode/initial-releaseThese commands create two levels of subdirectories on the flash card in PCMCIA slot 1.File and subdirectory naming conventionsThe PCMCIA slots supports file names of up to . File names are not case sensitive. Thus, thesoftware 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 specialcharacters listed. The following characters are valid in file and subdirectory names:• All upper and lowercase letters• All digits• Spaces• Any of the following special characters:• $• %• '• -• _• @• ~• `• !• (• )• {• }• ^• #
