Managing Software and Configurations

a time.
You can choose the location for the software from which the switch boots. This location is not shown in the switch configuration but is rather stored in a separate file in the flash.
After you change the location in the configuration, the switch must reboot in order for the switch to boot the software in the new location.
An administrator with console access to the switch can also choose the software to boot during the boot process, overriding the default location selected in the configuration.

you to manage the switch more easily.
You can test a new image in your system without having to replace the previous image; if necessary, you can revert to the previous image easily.
You can also use the two image locations for troubleshooting. For example, you can copy a problem image into secondary flash for later analysis and place another, proven image in primary flash to run your system.

board, and the drive is named flash:. Comware devices also support USB port or ports, which can support USB drives that offer additional flash memory locations. To reference these locations, use uf:.
You can manage files and directories in the flash memory in the same way that you might manage a Linux system. You can create subdirectories, move files to new locations, copy files, delete files, read the contents of files, and so on.
Note that the dir command displays the contents of the flash file system on the system board by default.