---
name: "lsmod"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "kmod"
version: "34.3-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/lsmod/8"
---

# lsmod(8)

Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

## NAME

lsmod - Show the status of modules in the Linux Kernel

## SYNOPSIS

**lsmod** \[*OPTIONS*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**lsmod** is a trivial program which nicely formats the contents of the */proc/modules*, showing what kernel modules are currently loaded.

## OPTIONS

- **-s**, **--syslog**

  Send errors to syslog instead of standard error.

- **-v**, **--verbose**

  Print messages about what the program is doing. Usually **lsmod** prints messages only if something goes wrong.

- **-V**, **--version**

  Show version of program and exit.

- **-h**, **--help**

  Print the help message and exit.

## COPYRIGHT

This manual page originally Copyright 2002, Rusty Russell, IBM Corporation.

## SEE ALSO

[**insmod**(8)](/insmod/8.md), [**modprobe**(8)](/modprobe/8.md), [**modinfo**(8)](/modinfo/8.md), [**depmod**(8)](/depmod/8.md)

## BUGS

Please direct any bug reports to kmod's issue tracker at https://github.com/kmod-project/kmod/issues/ alongside with version used, steps to reproduce the problem and the expected outcome.

## AUTHORS

Numerous contributions have come from the linux-modules mailing list \<linux-modules@vger.kernel.org\> and Github. If you have a clone of kmod.git itself, the output of [**git-shortlog**(1)](/git-shortlog/1.md) and [**git-blame**(1)](/git-blame/1.md) can show you the authors for specific parts of the project.

**Lucas De Marchi** \<lucas.de.marchi@gmail.com\> is the current maintainer of the project.