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Commands to check System & Hardware Information
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Hello linux-fanatics, in this post i will be discussing some important that will make your life as System Administrator. As we all know being a good System Administrator means knowing everything about your IT Infrastructure & having all the information about your servers, whether its hardware or OS. So following commands will help you out in extracting out all the hardware & system information.
#### 1- Viewing system information
$ uname -a
![uname command][2]
It will provide you all the information about your system. It will provide you with Kernel name of system, Hostname, Kernel version, Kernel Release, Hardware name.
#### 2- Viewing Hardware information
$ lshw
![lshw command][4]
Using lshw will show you all the Hardware information on your screen.
#### 3- Viewing Block Devices(Hard disks, Flash drives) information
$ lsblk
![lsblk command][6]
lsblk command prints all the information regarding block devices on screen. Use lsblk -a to show all the block devices.
#### 4- Viewing CPU information
$ lscpu
![lscpu command][8]
lscpu shows all the CPU information on screen.
#### 5- Viewing PCI information
$ lspci
![lspci command][10]
All the network adapter cards, USB cards, Graphics cards are termed as PCIs. To view their information use lspci .
lspci -v will give detailed information regarding PCI cards.
lspci -t will show them in tree format.
#### 6- Viewing USB information
$ lsusb
![lsusb command][12]
To view information regarding all USB controllers & devices connected to them, we use lsusb
#### 7- Viewing SCSI information
$ lssci
![lssci][14]
To view SCSI information type lsscsi. lsscsi -s will also show the size of partition.
#### 8- Viewing file system information
$ fdisk -l
![fdisk command][16]
Using fdisk -l will show information regarding the file system. Although main function of fdisk utility is to modify a file system, you can create new partitions, delete old ones ( more on that in my future tutorial).
That's it for now my fellow Linux-fanatics . You are advised to check out my other posts regarding Linux commands **[HERE][17] & ** another one **[HERE][18]
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[a]:http://linuxtechlab.com/author/shsuain/
[2]:https://i0.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/uname.jpg?resize=664%2C69
[4]:https://i2.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lshw.jpg?resize=641%2C386
[6]:https://i1.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lsblk.jpg?resize=646%2C162
[8]:https://i2.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lscpu.jpg?resize=643%2C216
[10]:https://i0.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lspci.jpg?resize=644%2C238
[12]:https://i2.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lsusb.jpg?resize=645%2C37
[14]:https://i2.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/lsscsi.jpg?resize=639%2C110
[16]:https://i2.wp.com/linuxtechlab.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/fdisk.jpg?resize=656%2C335
[17]:http://linuxtechlab.com/linux-commands-beginners-part-1/
[18]:http://linuxtechlab.com/linux-commands-beginners-part-2/