Memory issues

[terrelstinnett]

I am trying to upgrade my IOS on a 3550 switch.

The switch has 15MB of space total.

When I delete the current IOS it leaves only 8MB of space.

I need 10MB of space for the new image.

Where is this other space being taken up?

Can I do something to free up the space somewhere?

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Switch#dir flash:

Directory of flash:/

    2  -rwx         916   Mar 1 1993 00:06:53 +00:00  vlan.dat

    3  -rwx        3790   Mar 1 1993 00:39:12 +00:00  config.text

    4  -rwx          24   Mar 1 1993 00:39:12 +00:00  private-config.text

    5  -rwx     5687963   Mar 1 1993 01:11:18 +00:00  c3550-ipbasek9-mz.122-25.SEB4.bin

    8  drwx         192   Mar 1 1993 00:04:40 +00:00  c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-22.EA1a

15998976 bytes total (3300864 bytes free)

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Accessing tftp://192.168.1.50/c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin...

Loading c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin from 192.168.1.50 (via Vlan1): !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(more exclamation marks)

%Error writing flash:/c3550-ipservicesk9-mz.122-44.SE6.bin (No space left on device)

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Thanks for your help guys.

[Joe Clarke]

You have two images in flash already (and one is a directory).  Remove one (or both) of them.

del /force /recursive flash:c3550-i9q3l2-mz.121-22.EA1a

del flash:c3550-ipbasek9-mz.122-25.SEB4.bin

If you're worried that the transfer may fail for other reasons, don't remove your current running image until the new one is copied (provided you have enough space to leave both).

[Leo Laohoo]

DUPLICATE POSTS. 

Stanley, can I request if you refrain from making multiple posts of the same issue?