systemd-veritysetup@.service

systemd
systemd-veritysetup@.service 8
systemd-veritysetup@.service systemd-veritysetup Disk integrity protection logic

`systemd-veritysetup@.service`

`/usr/lib/systemd/systemd-veritysetup`

## Description

`systemd-veritysetup@.service` is a service responsible for setting up integrity protection (verity) block devices. It should be instantiated for each device that requires integrity protection.

At early boot and when the system manager configuration is reloaded kernel command line configuration for integrity protected block devices is translated into `systemd-veritysetup@.service` units by systemd-veritysetup-generator 8.

`systemd-veritysetup@.service` 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 documentation for details.

`detach` volume

  Detach (destroy) the block device volume.

`help`

  Print short information about command syntax.

## See Also

systemd 1, systemd-veritysetup-generator 8, veritysetup 8