Feb 8, 2024 · The "automatic" part is usually done by detecting that a new device has been attached to the machine. In addition to activating device drivers, it also automatically …

Under Linux 2.6, each disk and disk-like device has an entry in /sys/block. Under Linux since the dawn of time, disks and partitions are listed in /proc/partitions. Alternatively, you can use lshw: …

I tried to rm -rf a folder, and got "device or resource busy". In Windows, I would have used LockHunter to resolve this. What's the linux equivalent? (Please give as answer a simple …

Jun 8, 2025 · Problem I am trying to add a Linux device tree alias for a network adapter, so U-Boot can assign a static MAC address to it. However, when compiling the kernel, it fails at the …

Jun 27, 2012 · As others mentioned before, you can find a symlink to the device driver within the sysfs structure for this ethernet device. Using the GNU find parameter -samefile, you can look …

Nov 2, 2019 · Every time a device is added or removed, the kernel sends a uevent to notify udev of the change. The behavior of the udev daemon (service) can be configured using udev.conf …

Mar 13, 2019 · After you plug in your USB device to your USB port, Linux system adds a new block device into /dev/. Use command sudo fdisk -l This command will list all the detected …

Apr 14, 2011 · Specifically: I did sudo mkdir /work, and would like to verify it indeed sits on my harddrive and not mapped to some other drive. How do I check where this folder is physically …

Nov 13, 2022 · However, The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide makes use of functions class_create and device_create, I believe to accomplish the same task. What makes me …

Aug 10, 2017 · 81 I have a serial port device that I would like to test using linux command line. I am able to use stty and echo for sending commands to serial port, but when device responds I …