---
name: "wimverify"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "wimlib"
version: "1.14.5-4"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/wimverify"
---

# wimverify(1)

Verify a WIM archive

## 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 interpreted 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-imagex/1.md)