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systemd-veritysetup@.service8

Disk verity protection logic

Usage

[email protected]

/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-veritysetup

Overview

[email protected] is a service responsible for setting up verity protection block devices. It should be instantiated for each device that requires verity protection.

At early boot and when the system manager configuration is reloaded kernel command line configuration for verity protected block devices is translated into [email protected] units by systemd-veritysetup-generator(8).

[email protected] calls systemd-veritysetup.

Commands

The following commands are understood by systemd-veritysetup:

attach volume datadevice hashdevice roothash [option...]

Create a block device volume using datadevice and hashdevice as the backing devices. roothash forms the root of the tree of hashes stored on hashdevice. See Kernel dm-verity[1] documentation for details.

Added in version 250.

detach volume

Detach (destroy) the block device volume.

Added in version 250.

help

Print short information about command syntax.

Added in version 250.

Notes

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Kernel dm-verity

https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/device-mapper/verity.html

Releases

5 releases since Debian 10 (Buster); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 10
  2. 11
  3. 12
  4. 13
  5. Arch

From systemd 262.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.