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Important Commands to view Hardware and System Info in Linux

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View Linux System Information

  • Use uname command to know the system name.
  • View all information by adding -a to uname command
  • Use -r added to uname to view the kernel release
  • View the network hostname by adding -n option to uname command
  • -v option for kernel-version
  • To show hardware name, use -m

The screenshot below shows an examples for all these options with uname command

View CPU Information

  • Use lscpu command to collect info about CPU as shown below.
lscpu

Show memory information

  • Use free command to collect and print information about memory, buffer, cache and swap.
free -m   #m option to view the memory size and its info in MB
free -g   #g option to view the memory size and its info in GB
free -mh  #mh option to simplify it to be read with human readable

View Block Device Information

  • Use lsblk to show storage devices such as hard disks, flash drives (to list blocks)
lsblk
  • Also to view all block devices use the -a option with lsblk.
lsblk -a

Show USB Information

  •  To collect information about USB , use lsusb command to list usb devices
lsusb

View SCSI Devices Information

  • List all SCSI devices using lsscsi command as shown below
lsscsi
  • Also use -s option with lsscsi command to view devices sizes

Show PCI Devices Information

  • Print and collect information about PCI devices.
lspci
  • To produce information about each connected device, use -v option as shown below
  • Use the -t option with lspci command to produce output in a tree format.

Show System Hardware Information

  • Also to collect information about your Linux system hardware, use lshw command as shown below.
lshw
Hardware and System Info
Hardware and System Info
  • Show a summary of your hardware information using the option -short with lshw command
lshw -short
  • Also you can an html file as an output for your collected info, you can do this with using the command below then accessing the file via a web browser.
sudo lshw -html > lshw.html

Show Linux File System Information

  • Show partition information by using fdisk command with option -l as shown below
sudo fdisk -l

View Info about Hardware Components

You can use dmidecode command to collect information about hardware components.

dmidecode is a free userspace command-line utility for Linux that can parse the SMBIOS data. The name dmidecode is derived from Desktop Management Interface, a related standard with which dmidecode originally interfaced. 

  • Print info about system hardware components as follows:
sudo dmidecode -t system
  • View info about CPU
sudo dmidecode -t processor
  • Show info about memory
sudo dmidecode -t memory
  • Show info about BIOS seetings and confs.
sudo dmidecode -t bios

-t refers to the type of the hardware component.

Conclusion

That’s it

In this article, we illustrated how to collect and view information about your system and its Hardware components.

I hope this guide was useful

thanks.

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