From the course: Red Hat Certified System Administrator (EX200) Cert Prep: 1 Deploy, Configure, and Manage (2021)

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Manage kernel modules

Manage kernel modules

- [Presenter] In addition to the kernel itself Linux has modules that have to match the kernel version. These modules add functionality to the kernel which could include file systems and device drivers. These modules are stored in slash libs, slash modules for 32 bit kernels, and slash libs 64, for 64 bit kernels. Let's take a look at the slash lib directory. /ls, space /lib /modules /$(uname space -r) /kernel, and hit enter. The dollar sign and parentheses, around uname/r will execute that command, and the result will be inserted in its place. This is an easy way of inserting the current kernel version into the path without having to look it up. In this module's directory, we see other directories for drivers, files systems, network, and virtualization, to name a few. To see the currently loaded modules, use the, lsmod command. Type in, lsmod, and hit enter. We can get more information about a module using the…

Contents