3.1. Listing hardware devices
To learn about the hardware characteristics of your system, you can use the following commands:
| lsdev | Displays devices on the system and their characteristics. |
| lspv | Displays information about a physical volume within a volume group. |
| lsattr | Displays information about the attributes of a given device or kind of device. |
For example:
To list the tapes on your system, use the lsdev -C -c tape command.
To list the disks on your system, use the lsdev -C -c disk command.
3.1.1. Using the lsdev command
You can use the lsdev command to display information about devices in the device configuration database. You can use this command to display information from either the Customized Devices object class in ODM using the -C flag or ...
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