systemd-hwdb Command Examples

Hardware database management tool. More information: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-hwdb.html.

• Update the binary hardware database in /etc/udev:

systemd-hwdb update

• Query the hardware database and print the result for a specific modalias:

systemd-hwdb query {{modalias}}

• Update the binary hardware database, returning a non-zero exit value on any parsing error:

systemd-hwdb --strict update

• Update the binary hardware database in /usr/lib/udev:

systemd-hwdb --usr update

• Update the binary hardware database in the specified root path:

systemd-hwdb --root={{path/to/root}} update