Problem: trying to upgrade the stack switch C9300, but it failed because Switch 2 not enough space

Front panel components of a Cisco Catalyst 9300L Series switch

Figure 4. C9300L-48P-4X Switch Front Panel


1	Beacon LED (UID button)	5	USB Type A storage port
2	Mode button	6	10/100/1000 PoE+ ports
3	Status LEDs	7	Fixed uplink ports
4	USB mini-Type B (console) port	-	-

Solution:

To run on the clean up on the master switch

step1: make sure you back up the new IOS first, eg copy it to usb

step2: run command to do clean up, it will remove un use bin and packages files

Switch# install remove inactive

Step3: copy back the new ios from usb to flash

Step4: Switch# install add file flash:cat9k_lite_iosxe.16.09.02.SPA.bin activate commit

- Switches will be upgraded and reboot

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