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Exploring system hardware - Linux Tutorial
From the course: Linux Tips
Exploring system hardware
- Let's take a look at how to find the hardware information on a Linux system. This can be useful for troubleshooting or for exploring a system to see how its hardware is configured. The system shows us all sorts of information about the hardware it has through the dev and sys virtual file systems. sysfs contains a representation of information about the kernel. And devfs provides special files or device files where we can interact with hardware. These allow us to browse hardware information as though it were a directory tree. I'll move into dev here and take a look at what's listed. Here I can see devices like serial disk A, the first partition on serial disk A, the standard error standard in and standard out streams, a CD ROM, a number of loop file systems, TTY devices and more. I won't go into the details of these virtual file systems here. And if you're curious to learn more about how they work, be sure…
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Disks and partitions6m 42s
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Logical volume management9m 58s
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Create a RAID array9m 10s
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Repairing a RAID array4m 44s
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Local IP address5m 15s
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Predictable network interface names4m 51s
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DNS5m 40s
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VPN1m 43s
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Exploring system hardware5m 7s
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Drivers and modules4m 16s
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Understanding QEMU and KVM2m 49s
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Creating a VM with QEMU and KVM3m 46s
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Private networking6m 37s
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Routing and forwarding4m 26s
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DHCP4m 55s
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Network troubleshooting7m 42s
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Wi-Fi on Linux4m 14s
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Set up a secure tunnel with WireGuard8m 38s
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Scanning network ports with Nmap4m 28s
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