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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter 20 Managing Firmware and Configurations
Working with the Flash File System
Displaying Available File Systems
To display the available file systems on your access point, use the show file systems privileged EXEC
command as shown in this example:
ap# show file systems
File Systems:
Size(b) Free(b) Type Flags Prefixes
* 16128000 11118592 flash rw flash:
16128000 11118592 unknown rw zflash:
32768 26363 nvram rw nvram:
- - network rw tftp:
- - opaque rw null:
- - opaque rw system:
- - opaque ro xmodem:
- - opaque ro ymodem:
- - network rw rcp:
- - network rw ftp:
Table 20-1 lists field descriptions for the show file systems command.
Table 20-1 show file systems Field Descriptions
Field Value
Size(b) Amount of memory in the file system in bytes.
Free(b) Amount of free memory in the file system in bytes.
Type Type of file system.
flash—The file system is for a Flash memory device.
network—The file system is for a network device.
nvram—The file system is for a nonvolatile RAM (NVRAM) device.
opaque—The file system is a locally generated pseudo file system (for example, the system) or a download
interface, such as brimux.
unknown—The file system is an unknown type.
Flags Permission for file system.
ro—read-only.
rw—read/write.
wo—write-only.
Prefixes Alias for file system.
flash:—Flash file system.
ftp:—File Transfer Protocol network server. Used to transfer files to or from the network device.
nvram:—Non-volatile RAM memory (NVRAM).
null:—Null destination for copies. You can copy a remote file to null to determine its size.
rcp:—Remote Copy Protocol (RCP) network server.
system:—Contains the system memory, including the running configuration.
tftp:—Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) network server.
zflash:—Read-only file decompression file system, which mirrors the contents of the Flash file system.