How to Check Hardware information on Linux System

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In this tutorial, we will learn how to check hardware information on Linux system. Many a time as we interact with the Linux system in our day to day administrative activities, there may arise a need to check on the mounted filesystems, available block devices, disk space usage, system hardware information or even file space usage. Well, in this tutorial we are going to explore some of the tools that will come in handy while performing such activities.

You may also want to check our previous article on Viewing System Processes using ps and top commands.

Checking Hardware Information on Linux System

There are multiple commands that you can use as a Linux system administrator to check hardware information.

Some of these commands include;

  • lscpu
  • lsusb
  • lshw
  • lspci
  • lsblk
  • free
  • df
  • hwinfo
  • dmidecode
  • hdparm
  • blkid
  • ethool
  • du
  • findmnt

lscpu Command

lscpu utility displays information about the CPU cores in the system including their;

  • CPU architecture,
  • model,
  • number of cores,
  • Threads per core
  • vendor ID, etc.

To display this information, just run the command, lscpu.

lscpu

Architecture:            x86_64
  CPU op-mode(s):        32-bit, 64-bit
  Address sizes:         39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
  Byte Order:            Little Endian
CPU(s):                  2
  On-line CPU(s) list:   0,1
Vendor ID:               GenuineIntel
  Model name:            Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
    CPU family:          6
    Model:               142
    Thread(s) per core:  1
    Core(s) per socket:  2
    Socket(s):           1
    Stepping:            12
    BogoMIPS:            4607.95
    Flags:               fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc rep_good nop
                         l xtopology nonstop_tsc cpuid tsc_known_freq pni pclmulqdq ssse3 cx16 pcid sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic movbe popcnt aes xsave avx rdrand hypervisor lahf_l
                         m abm 3dnowprefetch invpcid_single pti fsgsbase bmi1 avx2 bmi2 invpcid rdseed clflushopt md_clear flush_l1d arch_capabilities
Virtualization features: 
  Hypervisor vendor:     KVM
  Virtualization type:   full
Caches (sum of all):     
  L1d:                   64 KiB (2 instances)
  L1i:                   64 KiB (2 instances)
  L2:                    512 KiB (2 instances)
  L3:                    16 MiB (2 instances)
NUMA:                    
  NUMA node(s):          1
  NUMA node0 CPU(s):     0,1
Vulnerabilities:         
  Itlb multihit:         KVM: Mitigation: VMX unsupported
  L1tf:                  Mitigation; PTE Inversion
  Mds:                   Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
  Meltdown:              Mitigation; PTI
  Mmio stale data:       Mitigation; Clear CPU buffers; SMT Host state unknown
  Retbleed:              Vulnerable
  Spec store bypass:     Vulnerable
  Spectre v1:            Mitigation; usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
  Spectre v2:            Mitigation; Retpolines, STIBP disabled, RSB filling, PBRSB-eIBRS Not affected
  Srbds:                 Unknown: Dependent on hypervisor status
  Tsx async abort:       Not affected

For more information, check lscpu manual page, lscpu(1).

lsusb Command

lsusb utility is used to display information about USB buses in the system and the devices connected to them.

If used without options, it will display basic information about USB devices and attached devices.


Bus 002 Device 003: ID 5986:0294 Acer, Inc 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:0129 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTS5129 Card Reader Controller
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 0cf3:3005 Qualcomm Atheros Communications AR3011 Bluetooth
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0024 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

To display additional information, various options can be passed to the lsusb command.

  • -v, – -verbose – Display detailed information about the devices shown.
  • -s [[bus]:][devnum] – Show only devices in specified bus and/or device number.
  • -d [vendor]:[product] – Show only devices with the specified vendor and product ID.
  • -D device – Do not scan the /dev/bus/usb directory, instead display only information about the device whose device file is given.
  • -t – Dump the physical USB device hierarchy as a tree.
  • -V, –version – Print version information on standard output, then exit successfully.

lshw Command

The command is used to list hardware information in Linux. This command displays detailed information about all the hardware components on the system, including CPU, memory, disks, network interfaces, and more.

It requires to be ran as privileged user to print all details;

sudo lshw

jellyfish                   
    description: Computer
    product: VirtualBox
    vendor: innotek GmbH
    version: 1.2
    serial: 0
    width: 64 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.5 dmi-2.5 smp vsyscall32
    configuration: family=Virtual Machine uuid=c819f24c-9cf9-4f55-8604-bcdbe2e4289f
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: VirtualBox
       vendor: Oracle Corporation
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.2
       serial: 0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: innotek GmbH
          physical id: 0
          version: VirtualBox
          date: 12/01/2006
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 128KiB
          capabilities: isa pci cdboot bootselect int9keyboard int10video acpi
     *-memory
          description: System memory
          physical id: 1
          size: 2GiB

lspci Command

It is used to display all the information about PCI buses in the system and devices connected to them. If run without options, it will display a brief list of devices.

lspci

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma] (rev 02)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
00:01.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
00:04.0 System peripheral: InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH VirtualBox Guest Service
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:06.0 USB controller: Apple Inc. KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82540EM Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 02)
00:0b.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
00:0d.0 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 02)

However, there are several options that can be used to tweak the output of the program.

  • -v – Display detailed information about all devices; can be doubled or tripled (-vv/-vvv) for more verbosity.
  • -m – Dump PCI device data in a backward-compatible machine readable form.
  • -mm – Dump PCI device data in a machine readable form for easy parsing by scripts.
  • -t – Show a tree-like view of all buses, bridges, devices and connections between them.
  • -n – Show PCI vendor and device codes as numbers rather than manufacturer and device names.
  • -nn – Show PCI both vendor and device names as well their numeric codes.
  • --version – Shows lspci version.

For more options, refer to lspci man pages: lspci(8)

lsblk Command

The lsblk command is used to list all available block devices, including hard drives, SSDs, and USB drives, on the system. This command displays information about the size, type, and mount point of each device.

lsblk

NAME                      MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
loop0                       7:0    0 111.9M  1 loop /snap/lxd/24322
loop1                       7:1    0  63.3M  1 loop /snap/core20/1778
loop2                       7:2    0   103M  1 loop /snap/lxd/23541
loop4                       7:4    0  63.3M  1 loop /snap/core20/1879
loop5                       7:5    0  49.8M  1 loop /snap/snapd/17950
loop6                       7:6    0  53.2M  1 loop /snap/snapd/19122
sda                         8:0    0  39.1G  0 disk 
├─sda1                      8:1    0     1M  0 part 
├─sda2                      8:2    0   1.8G  0 part /boot
└─sda3                      8:3    0  37.3G  0 part 
  └─ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 253:0    0  37.3G  0 lvm  /
sr0                        11:0    1  1024M  0 rom

What does each header field mean?

  1. NAME: The name of the block device.
  2. MAJ:MIN: The major and minor device number of the block device.
  3. RM: Whether the device is removable or not (0 = not removable, 1 = removable).
  4. SIZE: The size of the block device in bytes.
  5. RO: Whether the device is read-only or not (0 = not read-only, 1 = read-only).
  6. TYPE: The type of the block device (disk, partition, loop etc.).
  7. MOUNTPOINT: The mount point of the block device, if it is currently mounted.

free Command

free command can be used to check memory usage. It displays the total amount of physical and swap memory in the system as well as amount of used, free, shared, cached or in kernel buffers.

free
               total        used        free      shared  buff/cache   available
Mem:         2023204     1503376       67860        3692      451968      347500
Swap:        1914876      114848     1800028

The memory information is gathered by parsing /proc/meminfo. The displayed columns are:

  • total: Total installed memory (MemTotal and SwapTotal in /proc/meminfo)
  • used: Used memory (calculated as total – free – buffers – cache)
  • free: Unused memory (MemFree and SwapFree in /proc/meminfo)
  • shared: Memory used (mostly) by tmpfs (Shmem in /proc/meminfo)
  • buffers: Memory used by kernel buffers (Buffers in /proc/meminfo)
  • cache: Memory used by the page cache and slabs (Cached and SReclaimable in /proc/meminfo)
  • buff/cache: Sum of buffers and cache
  • available: Estimation of how much memory is available for starting new applications, without swapping. Unlike the data provided by the cache or free fields, this field takes into account page cache and also that not all reclaimable memory slabs will be reclaimed due to items being in use (MemAvailable in /proc/meminfo, available on kernels 3.14, emulated on kernels 2.6.27+, otherwise the same as free).

You can pass the -h, --human to show all output fields automatically scaled to shortest three digit unit and display the units of print out. Following units are used;

  • B = bytes
  • Ki = kibibyte
  • Mi = mebibyte
  • Gi = gibibyte
  • Ti = tebibyte
  • Pi = pebibyte
free -h

df Command

df utility displays the amount of disk space available on the file system i.e summarizes disk usage on a partition-by-partition basis.

Its syntax is: df [options] [files]

If run without optons, it can display filsystems, type of filesystem, their sizes, used space, available space, percentage space usage, mount point of a filesystem.

df

Filesystem                        1K-blocks    Used Available Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                                202324    1152    201172   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv  38366744 8573768  28086940  24% /
tmpfs                               1011600       0   1011600   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                                  5120       0      5120   0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2                           1790136  256856   1424020  16% /boot
tmpfs                                202320       4    202316   1% /run/user/1000

Some of the options that can be used to fine-tune the output of the df command include but no limited to:

  • -h, --human-readable – Print sizes in powers of 1024 (e.g., 1023M).
  • -H, --si – Print sizes in powers of 1000 (e.g., 1.1G).
  • -i, --inodes – List inode information instead of block usage.
  • -l, --local – Limit listing to local file systems.
  • -T, --print-type – Print file system type.
  • --help – Display help and exit.
  • --version – Displays version information and exit.

Consult man page, df(1), for more options that can be used.

An Example to display filesystem types in human readable form i.e display sizes in either megabytes or gigabytes instead of blocks;

df -hT

Filesystem                        Type   Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs                             tmpfs  198M  1.2M  197M   1% /run
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv ext4    37G  8.2G   27G  24% /
tmpfs                             tmpfs  988M     0  988M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs                             tmpfs  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
/dev/sda2                         ext4   1.8G  251M  1.4G  16% /boot
tmpfs                             tmpfs  198M  4.0K  198M   1% /run/user/1000

hwinfo Command

hwinfo command provides a detailed hardware information about various components of Linux system, such as CPU, memory, hard drives, network cards, and more.

However, it may not be installed by default on all systems and may require root privileges to run.

To install hwinfo on Ubuntu or Debian, you can run the following command:

sudo apt install hwinfo

To install it on CentOS or RHEL, you can use the following command:

sudo yum install hwinfo

To get a summary of the system's hardware;

hwinfo --short

cpu:                                                            
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 2303 MHz
                       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz, 2303 MHz
keyboard:
  /dev/input/event2    AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
mouse:
  /dev/input/mice      VirtualBox USB Tablet
  /dev/input/mice      ImExPS/2 Generic Explorer Mouse
  /dev/input/mice      VirtualBox mouse integration
graphics card:
                       VMware VMWARE0405
sound:
                       Intel 82801AA AC'97 Audio Controller
storage:
                       Intel 82801HM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
                       Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE
network:
  enp0s8               Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
  enp0s3               Intel PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter
network interface:
  enp0s3               Ethernet network interface
  enp0s8               Ethernet network interface
  lo                   Loopback network interface
disk:
  /dev/sda             VBOX HARDDISK
partition:
  /dev/sda1            Partition
  /dev/sda2            Partition
  /dev/sda3            Partition
cdrom:
  /dev/sr0             VBOX CD-ROM
usb controller:
                       Apple KeyLargo/Intrepid USB
                       Intel 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller
bios:
                       BIOS
bridge:
                       Intel 82371SB PIIX3 ISA [Natoma/Triton II]
                       Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI
                       Intel 440FX - 82441FX PMC [Natoma]
hub:
                       Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
                       Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
memory:
                       Main Memory
unknown:
                       FPU
                       DMA controller
                       PIC
                       Keyboard controller
  /dev/input/mice      InnoTek Systemberatung VirtualBox Guest Service

You can also get detailed information about a specific hardware component such as cpu, memory, storage, etc;

To show CPU information;

hwinfo --cpu

Memory;

hwinfo --memory

Storage;

hwinfo --storage

USB;

hwinfo --usb

Sound;

hwinfo --sound

e.t.c

dmidecode Command

dmidecode is a tool for dumping a computer's DMI table contents in a human-readable format. This table contains a description of the system's hardware components, as well as other useful pieces of information such as serial numbers and BIOS revision.

  • To display system's hardware information in brief:
sudo dmidecode -t system
  • To display BIOS information:
sudo dmidecode -t bios
  • To display processor information:
sudo dmidecode -t processor
  • To display memory information:
sudo dmidecode -t memory
  • To display information about the system's cache:
sudo dmidecode -t cache
  • To display information about the system's baseboard (motherboard):
sudo dmidecode -t baseboard
  • To display information about the system's chassis:
sudo dmidecode -t chassis
  • To display information about the system's power supply:
sudo dmidecode -t power

DMI types can also be mapped to number. Check table below;

NumberTypeDescription
0BIOSBIOS information
1SystemSystem information
2Base BoardBase board or motherboard information
3ChassisChassis information
4ProcessorProcessor information
5Memory ControllerMemory controller information
6Memory ModuleMemory module information
7CacheCache information
8Port ConnectorPort connector information
9System SlotsSlot information for add-in devices
10On Board DevicesInformation about devices integrated into the motherboard
11OEM StringsOEM-specific information
12System ConfigurationSystem configuration information
13BIOS LanguageBIOS language information
14Group AssociationsInformation about groups of related objects
15System Event LogSystem event log information
16Physical Memory ArrayPhysical memory array information
17Memory DeviceInformation about a specific memory device
1832-bit Memory ErrorInformation about 32-bit memory errors
19Memory Array Mapped AddressMapped address information for a physical memory array
20Memory Device Mapped AddressMapped address information for a memory device
21Built-in Pointing DeviceInformation about the built-in pointing device
22Portable BatteryInformation about the portable battery
23System ResetSystem reset information
24Hardware SecurityHardware security information
25System Power ControlsInformation about system power controls
26Voltage ProbeVoltage probe information
27Cooling DeviceCooling device information
28Temperature ProbeTemperature probe information
29Electrical Current ProbeElectrical current probe information
30Out-of-Band Remote AccessInformation about out-of-band remote access to the system
31Boot Integrity Services (BIS)Information about the boot integrity services (BIS)
32System BootInformation about the system boot process
33Memory ErrorInformation about memory errors
34Management DeviceManagement controller information
35Management Device ComponentComponent information for the management controller
36Management Device Threshold DataThreshold information for the management controller
37Memory ChannelInformation about memory channel
38IPMI DeviceIPMI device information
39Power SupplyPower supply information
40Additional InformationAdditional system information
41Onboard DeviceOnboard device information
42OEM-specific TypeOEM-specific information

You can replace the type with a number e.g;

sudo dmidecode -t 1

# dmidecode 3.3
Getting SMBIOS data from sysfs.
SMBIOS 2.5 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
	Manufacturer: innotek GmbH
	Product Name: VirtualBox
	Version: 1.2
	Serial Number: 0
	UUID: 4cf219c8-f99c-554f-8604-bcdbe2e4289f
	Wake-up Type: Power Switch
	SKU Number: Not Specified
	Family: Virtual Machine

hdparm Command

hdparm is a command-line utility in Linux used to view and configure various hard disk drive (HDD) parameters such as reading/writing speed, power management, security, and more;

View hard disk drive information:

sudo hdparm -i /dev/sda

/dev/sda:

 Model=VBOX HARDDISK, FwRev=1.0, SerialNo=VB00c718f1-fb070a44
 Config={ Fixed }
 RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=512, ECCbytes=0
 BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=256kB, MaxMultSect=128, MultSect=128
 CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=16514064, LBA=yes, LBAsects=81920000
 IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
 PIO modes:  pio0 pio3 pio4 
 DMA modes:  mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 
 UDMA modes: udma0 udma1 udma2 udma3 udma4 udma5 *udma6 
 AdvancedPM=no WriteCache=enabled
 Drive conforms to: unknown:  ATA/ATAPI-1,2,3,4,5,6

 * signifies the current active mode

Check hard disk read speed:

sudo hdparm -t /dev/sda

Read more on man hdparm.

blkid Command

blkid command displays information such as UUID, filesystem type, volume label about available block devices. For example:

(Remember, you must run blkid with root privileges to view all devices).

sudo blkid

/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv: UUID="26b3d004-a446-4510-b0a7-be001dc566ff" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/sda2: UUID="d0108361-8ba6-4f1c-bd2b-2729493274b8" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="31f3e534-b4cc-4231-98cf-8e46f233a7ed"
/dev/sda3: UUID="2l4lAf-vXju-afXg-LfeQ-jcl2-Q3mR-99iXpg" TYPE="LVM2_member" PARTUUID="7cf8f230-4a68-49d6-b0d0-f8117be770cc"
/dev/loop1: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop6: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop4: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop2: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/sda1: PARTUUID="03ae84e9-6865-4000-a13d-4ae7923fcffb"
/dev/loop5: TYPE="squashfs"

To display specific information about specific block device, pass the device name to blkid. For example, to display information about /dev/sda2.

sudo blkid /dev/sda2

To see the options that can be used with blkid, check its man page.

ethool Command

ethtool is a command-line utility in Linux that allows users to view and modify network interface controller (NIC) settings. It can be used to check the link status, speed, duplex, and other settings of Ethernet devices.

To check the status of eth0 interface;

sudo ethtool enp0s3

Settings for enp0s3:
	Supported ports: [ TP ]
	Supported link modes:   10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	                        1000baseT/Full
	Supported pause frame use: No
	Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
	Supported FEC modes: Not reported
	Advertised link modes:  10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
	                        100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
	                        1000baseT/Full
	Advertised pause frame use: No
	Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
	Advertised FEC modes: Not reported
	Speed: 1000Mb/s
	Duplex: Full
	Auto-negotiation: on
	Port: Twisted Pair
	PHYAD: 0
	Transceiver: internal
	MDI-X: off (auto)
	Supports Wake-on: umbg
	Wake-on: d
        Current message level: 0x00000007 (7)
                               drv probe link
	Link detected: yes

To change the speed and duplex settings of eth0 to 100Mbps full-duplex;

sudo ethtool -s enp0s3 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off

To check the driver information and firmware version;

sudo ethtool -i enp0s3

Read more on man ethool.

du Command

Summarize disk usage of the set of FILEs, recursively for directories. It searches the specified directories recursively and reports how much disk space each is consuming.

The basic syntax is: du [options] [directories]

To display the disk usage for each of the subdirectories in the current working directory, run the command with no option:

du
40  ./man
136 ./src
28  ./src.drivers/freebsd
28  ./src.drivers
16  ./test
228 .

Some of the options used include:

  • -a, --all – Write counts for all files, not just directories
  • -c, --total – Produce a grand total at the end of its output.
  • -h, --human-readable – Print sizes in human readable format (e.g., 2K 110M 34G)
  • --help – Display this help and exit
  • --version – Displays version information and exit

For more options, consult du man page, du(1).

To display grand total in human readable form, pass option -h and -c;

du -hc

findmnt Command

findmnt command is used to list all mounted filesystems or search for a filesystem along with the information such as target mount point, source device, filesystem type and relevant mount options. If device or mountpoint is not given, all filesystems are shown in the tree-like format.

findmnt 

TARGET                                        SOURCE                    FSTYPE      OPTIONS
/                                             /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv
│                                                                       ext4        rw,relatime
├─/sys                                        sysfs                     sysfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/security                      securityfs                securityfs  rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/cgroup                            cgroup2                   cgroup2     rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,nsdelegate,memory_recursiveprot
│ ├─/sys/fs/pstore                            pstore                    pstore      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/bpf                               bpf                       bpf         rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700
│ ├─/sys/kernel/debug                         debugfs                   debugfs     rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/kernel/tracing                       tracefs                   tracefs     rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ ├─/sys/fs/fuse/connections                  fusectl                   fusectl     rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/sys/kernel/config                        configfs                  configfs    rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/proc                                       proc                      proc        rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
│ └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc                  systemd-1                 autofs      rw,relatime,fd=29,pgrp=1,timeout=0,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=18763
│   └─/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc                binfmt_misc               binfmt_misc rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/dev                                        udev                      devtmpfs    rw,nosuid,relatime,size=953340k,nr_inodes=238335,mode=755,inode64
│ ├─/dev/pts                                  devpts                    devpts      rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000
│ ├─/dev/shm                                  tmpfs                     tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,inode64
│ ├─/dev/hugepages                            hugetlbfs                 hugetlbfs   rw,relatime,pagesize=2M
│ └─/dev/mqueue                               mqueue                    mqueue      rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime
├─/run                                        tmpfs                     tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=202324k,mode=755,inode64
│ ├─/run/lock                                 tmpfs                     tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=5120k,inode64
│ ├─/run/credentials/systemd-sysusers.service none                      ramfs       ro,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,mode=700
│ ├─/run/snapd/ns                             tmpfs[/snapd/ns]          tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime,size=202324k,mode=755,inode64
│ │ └─/run/snapd/ns/lxd.mnt                   nsfs[mnt:[4026532273]]    nsfs        rw
│ └─/run/user/1000                            tmpfs                     tmpfs       rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,size=202320k,nr_inodes=50580,mode=700,uid=1000,gid=1000,inode64
├─/snap/lxd/24322                             /dev/loop0                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue
├─/snap/core20/1778                           /dev/loop1                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue
├─/snap/lxd/23541                             /dev/loop2                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue
├─/snap/core20/1879                           /dev/loop4                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue
├─/snap/snapd/17950                           /dev/loop5                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue
├─/boot                                       /dev/sda2                 ext4        rw,relatime
└─/snap/snapd/19122                           /dev/loop6                squashfs    ro,nodev,relatime,errors=continue

Read more on man findmnt.

That concludes our guide on checking hardware information on Linux system.

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