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

systemd-machine-id-commit.service

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.

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.

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.

*systemd*(1), *systemd-machine-id-setup*(1), *machine-id*(5), *systemd-firstboot*(1)