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Wrong drive size reported by 7010 controller on external USB stick

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  • 1.  Wrong drive size reported by 7010 controller on external USB stick

    Posted Mar 15, 2024 03:57 PM

    I am working toward upgrading a 7010 Aruba wireless controller/mobility gateway. I may be able to upgrade from local in the GUI, but would like to be able to put the new OS on the USB to boot from in the event of any issues. 

    We have a 128GB USB stick plugged into one of the WLC's USB slots. It's been formatted FAT from a Windows machine. I see the drive in CLI and can copy to it. I realize FAT will only allow 32GB partitions, which is much more than I need. However, the reported USB size is only 1000K, or 1 MB. 

    I've read that an external drive should be formatted vFAT, but the more I read about this, it seems this is more of a driver for accessing a FAT file system than a format itself. I also see other recommended formats are ext2 or ext3.

    Has anyone run up against this before, and if so, how did you get around it? We don't have access to a Linux-based system.

    Thanks,

    Lane