Investigating Linux Hardware

In this post, we are going to discuss about how linux handles hardware and interact with them via command-line. udev service, is responsible for managing linux devices.

All information related to the hardware is in the /dev pseudo file system. We will run the following commands to understand it in detail.

​lspci - Displays Information of PCI Devices Attached
lsusb - Displays Information on USB Devices Attached
lscpu - Displays Information on Processes on a System
lsblk  - Displays information on all block devices on the system