I need to know what hard disks are available, including ones that aren't mounted and possibly aren't formatted. I can't find them in dmesg or /var/log/messages (too much to scroll through). I'm hoping there's a way to use /dev or /proc to find out…
I forgot how many RAM (DIMM) modules are installed on my laptop. I do not want to unscrew it but want to look it up on the console using bash. How do I gather this information?
I used a system information utility to take the model number of a system, and also of the motherboard.
DMI System Manufacturer LENOVO
DMI System Product 2306CTO
DMI System Version ThinkPad X230
DMI Motherboard Product …
I have multiple hard disks which get connected to my server and I'm not sure which one is what in the view of sdXY. If I could see the serial numbers of my hard disks from terminal, I could easily identify them.
Is there any way I can get the serial…
Linux uses a virtual memory system where all of the addresses are virtual addresses and not physical addresses. These virtual addresses are converted into physical addresses by the processor.
To make this translation easier, virtual and physical…
I'm basically trying to figure out how one would go about making a GUI from absolute scratch with nothing but the linux kernel and programming in C.
I am not looking to create a GUI desktop environment from scratch, but I would like to create some…
I have a 2013 Retina MacBook Pro, and I really want to install Debian on it. I have the know-how and have had at least three Debian systems before this. I am very knowledgable with the command-line and Linux's inner workings, and partitioning isn't…
I am trying to detect a signal when a headphone is connected or disconnected from the system.
What is the best way to do this?
If there is a special board with drivers, that will be my preferred way.
We all know that SSDs have a limited predetermined life span. How do I check in Linux what the current health status of an SSD is?
Most Google search results would ask you to look up S.M.A.R.T. information for a percentage field called…
While I was learning about cpu load, I came to know that it depends on the number of cores. If I have 2 cores then load 2 will give 100% cpu utilization.
So I tried to find out cores.( I already know that system has 2 cores, 4 threads so 2 virtual…
Can we generate a unique id for each PC, something like uuuidgen, but it will never change unless there are hardware changes? I was thinking about merging CPUID and MACADDR and hash them to generate a consistent ID, but I have no idea how to parse…
