systemd-machine-id-commit.service(8)

.SH "NAME" systemd-machine-id-commit.service - Commit a transient machine ID to disk

.SH "SYNOPSIS"

.PP systemd-machine-id-commit.service

.SH "DESCRIPTION"

.PP systemd-machine-id-commit.service is an early boot service responsible for committing transient /etc/machine-id files to a writable disk file system. See machine-id(5) for more information about machine IDs.

.PP This service is started after local-fs.target in case /etc/machine-id is a mount point of its own (usually from a memory file system such as tmpfs) and /etc is writable. The service will invoke systemd-machine-id-setup --commit, which writes the current transient machine ID to disk and unmount the /etc/machine-id file in a race-free manner to ensure that file is always valid and accessible for other processes. See systemd-machine-id-setup(1) for details.

.PP The main use case of this service are systems where /etc/machine-id is read-only and initially not initialized. In this case, the system manager will generate a transient machine ID file on a memory file system, and mount it over /etc/machine-id, during the early boot phase. This service is then invoked in a later boot phase, as soon as /etc/ has been remounted writable and the ID may thus be committed to disk to make it permanent.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

.PP systemd(1), systemd-machine-id-setup(1), machine-id(5), systemd-firstboot(1)