Yes, that helps but I was thinking there was a way to do this but it may be in the CatOS that this is available.

it's a pitty you can't provision blades like you do with stacking switches.

More of a pity you can't UN-PROVISION a blade that's been removed without reinserting the blade, adding "module clear-config", and then pulling it back out!!!

if you remove a blade, the configuration is removed from the running-configuration, if you do a write to startup then it's also gone from startup config.

Or do you mean something else?

The config is only removed if the line "module clear config" is in the config.

This is handy for removing a config when you remove a linecard, it's kind of a downer when you're just replacing a failed linecard. (Copy start -> Run would effectivly reprovision this, but you'd need to do no-shuts, I think.)

It'd be nice to have some other method of removing a ghost config from a running box. If you take a linecard out when you don't have "module clear-config" in place, that config just hangs out and there appears to be no way of removing it, short of a reboot or other shenanigans.