topic Re: hardware information in Operating System - Linux

hardware information

eric_204 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 08:47:35 GMT

I am running RH 8 system on PC server , except reboot the system and xwindows , how can I know the hardware information eg . CPU speed , memory/harddisk size etc. ? thx.

Re: hardware information

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:06:50 GMT

to see the CPU info:
cat /proc/cpuinfo
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o see the memory info use "free" command

to see the hard disk's partions free/occupied space:
df -h

for entire hard drive use fdisk /dev/hda
for IDE primary master
and then type p (for print)
you'll see it's size in cylinders and below it the unit size (like units=cylinders of 4096 * 512 bytes) do the math.

Best Regards

Re: hardware information

Cristian Draghici — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 09:58:32 GMT

You might also find useful lspci and lsdev.

lspci is a utility for displaying information about all PCI buses in the system and all devices connected to them.

lsdev probes the /proc pseudofiles and writes up a summary.

Hope this helps
c

Re: hardware information

Alexander Chuzhoy — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:28:57 GMT

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Re: hardware information

Vitaly Karasik_1 — Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:41:53 GMT

Kudos to Alexsander!

and for Eric:

- in RH Linux you have "hwbrowser" utility

- do you need more details?

there is lshw
http://ezix.sourceforge.net/software/lshw.html - lshw (Hardware Lister) is a small tool to provide detailed informaton on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configuration, CPU version and speed, cache configuration, bus speed, etc. on DMI-capable x86 systems and on some PowerPC machines

regards,
Vitaly

Re: hardware information

Karsten Breivik_1 — Thu, 27 Nov 2003 03:28:32 GMT

/etc/fstab //describes mount info for the file sys

uname -a //kernel and some hw params.

brgds

- k

Re: hardware information

root_6 — Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:20:28 GMT

/proc
directory have all info of ur h/w
procesor
memory
pci devices
file sysatem partitions

u can use cat or vo or any other utility to see those files in /proc