Cisco ASR 9000 Series User Manual

If the flash disk is badly damaged and cannot be reformatted, the disk must be replaced.
If the corrupted flash disk is the DSC, then the router fails over to the standby DSC. If no standby DSC
is installed, then the system fails to boot.
Note
Using Controller Commands to Manage Hardware Components
The controller , controllers , and show controllers commands are used to manage and display settings
for various hardware components, including the switch fabric management, Ethernet control plane, and
interface manager. These commands are primarily diagnostic and related to driver-level details. The information
available with these commands varies widely and is hardware specific.
For information on the use of these commands, see Cisco ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router
Interface and Hardware Component Command Reference.
Formatting Hard Drives, Flash Drives, and Other Storage Devices
To format a storage device on the router, use the format command in EXEC mode.
Formatting a storage device deletes all data on that device.Caution
The following command syntax is used:
format filesystem: [options]
Table 19: format command Syntax Description, on page 123 describes the format command syntax.
Table 19: format command Syntax Description
DescriptionVariable
Specifies the memory device to format. The supported
file systems are:
•
bootflash:
•
compactflash:
•
configflash:
•
harddisk:
•
harddiska:
•
disk0:
•
disk1:
Enter format ? to see the devices supported on your
router.
filesystem
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Cisco ASR 9000 Series Specifications

General

Brand	Cisco
Model	ASR 9000 Series
Category	Network Router
Language	English