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Commands to check System & Hardware Information
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
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
Using lshw will show you all the Hardware information on your screen.
3- Viewing Block Devices(Hard disks, Flash drives) information
$ lsblk
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 shows all the CPU information on screen.
5- Viewing PCI information
$ lspci
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
To view information regarding all USB controllers & devices connected to them, we use lsusb
7- Viewing SCSI information
$ lssci
To view SCSI information type lsscsi. lsscsi -s will also show the size of partition.
8- Viewing file system information
$ fdisk -l
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 & ** another one **HERE **