wimverify

WIMVERIFY(1) User Commands WIMVERIFY(1)

NAME

   wimverify - Verify a WIM archive

SYNOPSIS

   wimverify WIMFILE [OPTION...]

DESCRIPTION

   wimverify (or equivalently wimlib-imagex verify) checks the validity and integrity of the specified WIM archive.

   Specifically, this command performs the following verifications on the WIM:

      Verify that the WIM can be successfully opened, which involves parsing the header, blob table, and XML data.

      If the WIM contains extra integrity information, verify the integrity of the entire WIM.

      Verify that the metadata for each image in the WIM can be successfully parsed.

      Verify that all files needed by each image are actually contained in the WIM or in one of the WIMs referenced by the --ref option.

      Verify that all files contained in the WIM can be successfully decompressed, with matching checksums.

OPTIONS

   --ref="GLOB"
         File  glob  of additional WIMs or split WIM parts to reference resources from.  This option can be specified multiple times.  Note: GLOB is listed in quotes because it is inter
         preted by wimverify and may need to be quoted to protect against shell expansion.

   --nocheck
         Do not verify the WIM's integrity using the extra integrity information (the integrity table).

NOTES

   wimverify is a read-only operation; it does not modify the WIM file.

   Even if the WIM does not contain extra integrity information (e.g. generated with the --check option to wimcapture), wimverify may still be quite useful because all file data is still
   checksummed.

   In the future, wimverify might do more thorough verifications than it does now.

EXAMPLES

   Verify the WIM file 'boot.wim':

          wimverify boot.wim

   Verify the split WIM file consisting of 'boot.swm', 'boot2.swm', 'boot3.swm', ...:

          wimverify boot.swm --ref="boot*.swm"

SEE ALSO

   wimlib-imagex(1)

wimlib 1.14.4 February 2024 WIMVERIFY(1)