---
name: "grml-hwinfo"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "grml-hwinfo"
version: "0.18.8"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/grml-hwinfo"
---

# grml-hwinfo(1)

collect hardware information

## NAME

grml-hwinfo - collect hardware information

## SYNOPSIS

**grml-hwinfo \[-d\] \[-f\]**

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **grml-hwinfo** command.

**grml-hwinfo** is a program that collects information regarding hardware.

## OPTIONS

**-d** Save collected data in a directory named "grml-hwinfo-TIMESTAMP".

**-f** Save collected data in a tarball named "grml-hwinfo-TIMESTAMP.tar.bz2". Specify both -d and -f, as -df, to get the directory and the tarball.

## RUNNING AS ROOT

Running this program as root will make it gather additional information. This includes DMI, DDC, disk, partition tables and other data normally only available to root.

## AUTHOR

grml-hwinfo was written by Michael Prokop \<mika@grml.org\>.

This manual page was written by Michael Prokop \<mika@grml.org\>, for the Grml project (but may be used by others).