Commands In Slides

commandexplanationmore info
sudo less /proc/ioportsdisplays attached portsman
sudo less /proc/iomemmemory mapped IO resourcesman
less /proc/interruptsdisplays all interruptsman
iostat -p vdastatistics about current I/Oman
smartctl -a /dev/hda1tool for SMART observeration of drivesman

Direct Memory Access

DMA

Linux UDEV

device nodes in /dev and list the properties of the root partition

$$ ls -al /dev/ $$ sudo fdisk -l $$ ls -al /dev/vda1

Print all sysfs properties of /dev/vda1 These properties are used in Udev rules to match the device

$$ udevadm info –attribute-walk /dev/vda1 Query the Udev database for all device information for /dev/vda1

$$ udevadm info –query=all –name=/dev/vda1 write random noise to the sound device /dev/audio (run on machine with speakers)

$$ cat /dev/urandom | padsp tee /dev/audio > /dev/null