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+<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
+  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.2/docbookx.dtd">
+<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1+ -->
 
 <refentry id="systemd-machine-id-setup"
-          xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
-
-        <refentryinfo>
-                <title>systemd-machine-id-setup</title>
-                <productname>systemd</productname>
-
-                <authorgroup>
-                        <author>
-                                <contrib>Developer</contrib>
-                                <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
-                                <surname>Poettering</surname>
-                                <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
-                        </author>
-                </authorgroup>
-        </refentryinfo>
-
-        <refmeta>
-                <refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle>
-                <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
-        </refmeta>
-
-        <refnamediv>
-                <refname>systemd-machine-id-setup</refname>
-                <refpurpose>Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id</refpurpose>
-        </refnamediv>
-
-        <refsynopsisdiv>
-                <cmdsynopsis>
-                        <command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command>
-                </cmdsynopsis>
-        </refsynopsisdiv>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Description</title>
-
-                <para><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command> may
-                be used by system installer tools to initialize the
-                machine ID stored in
-                <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time
-                with a randomly generated ID. See
-                <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                for more information about this file.</para>
-
-                <para>This tool will execute no operation if
-                <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is already
-                initialized.</para>
-
-                <para>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already
-                configured for the system, the D-Bus machine ID is
-                copied and used to initialize the machine ID in
-                <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para>
-
-                <para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
-                is passed via the <option>-uuid</option> option, this
-                UUID is used to initialize the machine ID instead of a
-                randomly generated one. The caller must ensure that the
-                UUID passed is sufficiently unique and is different
-                for every booted instanced of the VM.</para>
-
-                <para>Similarly, if run inside a Linux container
-                environment and a UUID is set for the container this
-                is used to initialize the machine ID. For details see
-                the documentation of the <ulink
-                url="http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface">Container
-                Interface</ulink>.</para>
-
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Options</title>
-
-                <para>The following options are understood:</para>
-
-                <variablelist>
-                        <varlistentry>
-                                <term><option>--root=<replaceable>root</replaceable></option></term>
-                                <listitem><para>Takes a directory path
-                                as an argument. All paths will be
-                                prefixed with the given alternate
-                                <replaceable>root</replaceable> path,
-                                including config search paths.
-                                </para></listitem>
-                        </varlistentry>
-                        <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
-                        <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
-                </variablelist>
-
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>Exit status</title>
-
-                <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure
-                code otherwise.</para>
-        </refsect1>
-
-        <refsect1>
-                <title>See Also</title>
-                <para>
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
-                        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
-                </para>
-        </refsect1>
+    xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
+
+  <refentryinfo>
+    <title>systemd-machine-id-setup</title>
+    <productname>systemd</productname>
+  </refentryinfo>
+
+  <refmeta>
+    <refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-setup</refentrytitle>
+    <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+  </refmeta>
+
+  <refnamediv>
+    <refname>systemd-machine-id-setup</refname>
+    <refpurpose>Initialize the machine ID in /etc/machine-id</refpurpose>
+  </refnamediv>
+
+  <refsynopsisdiv>
+    <cmdsynopsis>
+      <command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command>
+    </cmdsynopsis>
+  </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Description</title>
+
+    <para><command>systemd-machine-id-setup</command> may be used by
+    system installer tools to initialize the machine ID stored in
+    <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> at install time, with a
+    provisioned or randomly generated ID. See
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    for more information about this file.</para>
+
+    <para>If the tool is invoked without the <option>--commit</option>
+    switch, <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is initialized with a
+    valid, new machined ID if it is missing or empty. The new machine
+    ID will be acquired in the following fashion:</para>
+
+    <orderedlist>
+      <listitem><para>If a valid D-Bus machine ID is already
+      configured for the system, the D-Bus machine ID is copied and
+      used to initialize the machine ID in
+      <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename>.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>If run inside a KVM virtual machine and a UUID
+      is configured (via the <option>-uuid</option>
+      option), this UUID is used to initialize the machine ID. The
+      caller must ensure that the UUID passed is sufficiently unique
+      and is different for every booted instance of the
+      VM.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>Similarly, if run inside a Linux container
+      environment and a UUID is configured for the container, this is
+      used to initialize the machine ID. For details, see the
+      documentation of the <ulink
+      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ContainerInterface">Container
+      Interface</ulink>.</para></listitem>
+
+      <listitem><para>Otherwise, a new ID is randomly
+      generated.</para></listitem>
+    </orderedlist>
+
+    <para>The <option>--commit</option> switch may be used to commit a
+    transient machined ID to disk, making it persistent. For details,
+    see below.</para>
+
+    <para>Use
+    <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    to initialize the machine ID on mounted (but not booted) system
+    images.</para>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Options</title>
+
+    <para>The following options are understood:</para>
+
+    <variablelist>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--root=<replaceable>root</replaceable></option></term>
+        <listitem><para>Takes a directory path as argument. All paths
+        operated will be prefixed with the given alternate
+        <replaceable>root</replaceable> path, including the path for
+        <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> itself.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--commit</option></term>
+        <listitem><para>Commit a transient machine ID to disk. This
+        command may be used to convert a transient machine ID into a
+        persistent one. A transient machine ID file is one that was
+        bind mounted from a memory file system (usually
+        <literal>tmpfs</literal>) to
+        <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> during the early phase of
+        the boot process. This may happen because
+        <filename>/etc</filename> is initially read-only and was
+        missing a valid machine ID file at that point.</para>
+
+        <para>This command will execute no operation if
+        <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> is not mounted from a
+        memory file system, or if <filename>/etc</filename> is
+        read-only. The command will write the current transient
+        machine ID to disk and unmount the
+        <filename>/etc/machine-id</filename> mount point in a
+        race-free manner to ensure that this file is always valid and
+        accessible for other processes.</para>
+
+        <para>This command is primarily used by the
+        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+        early boot service.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--print</option></term>
+
+        <listitem><para>Print the machine ID generated or committed after the operation is complete.</para></listitem>
+      </varlistentry>
+
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="help" />
+      <xi:include href="standard-options.xml" xpointer="version" />
+    </variablelist>
+
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>Exit status</title>
+
+    <para>On success, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code
+    otherwise.</para>
+  </refsect1>
+
+  <refsect1>
+    <title>See Also</title>
+    <para>
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>machine-id</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-machine-id-commit.service</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry project='dbus'><refentrytitle>dbus-uuidgen</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
+      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd-firstboot</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
+    </para>
+  </refsect1>
 
 </refentry>