Basic System Configuration Guide File System Management
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On the 7705 SAR-18, cf3: is used to store the software image required for system 
startup and operation, including the application load. The 7705 SAR-18 CSM also 
has two optional compact flash slots for two compact flash devices (cf1: and cf2:). 
These compact flash devices are also referred to as cf1-A:/cf1-B: and cf2-A:/cf2-B: 
to indicate whether they are on CSM A or CSM B. All the compact flash devices can 
be used to store software upgrades, statistics, logging files, accounting files, scripts, 
and configuration data.
4.1.2 URLs
The arguments for the 7705 SAR file commands are modeled after the standard 
universal resource locator (URL). 
A URL can refer to a file (a file-url) or a directory (a directory-url).
The 7705 SAR supports operations on both the local file system and on remote files. 
For the purposes of categorizing the applicability of commands to local and remote 
file operations, URLs are divided into three types of URLs: local, ftp, and tftp. 
The syntax for each of the URL types is listed in Table 14. 
Note: 
• The 7705 SAR-8, 7705 SAR-18, 7705 SAR-H, and 7705 SAR-M have removable 
compact flash cards.
• The 7705 SAR-A, 7705 SAR-Ax, 7705 SAR-Hc, 7705 SAR-W, and 7705 SAR-Wx do 
not have removable compact flash cards; they are shipped with integrated memory that 
is used to store system boot software, OS software, and configuration files and logs.
• The 7705 SAR-X has two removable compact flash cards but they are not field-
replaceable. Replacement of the devices is done as a repair service.
Note: To prevent corruption of open files in the file system, compact flashes should be 
removed on those chassis that have replaceable compact flash cards only when the CFs 
are administratively shut down. The 7705 SAR gracefully closes any open files on the 
device so that it can be safely removed.