Basic System Configuration Guide 169
File System Management
In This Chapter
This chapter provides information about file system management.
Topics in this chapter include:
• The File System
→ Compact Flash Devices
→ URLs
→ Wildcards
• File Management Tasks
→ Modifying File Attributes
→ Creating Directories
→ Copying Files
→ Moving Files
→ Deleting Files and Removing Directories
→ Displaying Directory and File Information
The File System
The SR OS file system is used to store files used and generated by the system, for example, 
image files, configuration files, logging files and accounting files. 
The file commands allow you to copy, create, move, and delete files and directories, navigate 
to a different directory, display file or directory contents and the image version.
Although some of the storage devices on routers are not actually compact flash devices (for 
example, cf1: on the 7950 XRS is an internal SSD), we refer to all storage devices as compact 
flash.