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diff --git a/man/veritysetup.8 b/man/veritysetup.8
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--- a/man/veritysetup.8
+++ b/man/veritysetup.8
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH VERITYSETUP "8" "June 2012" "veritysetup" "Maintenance Commands"
+.TH VERITYSETUP "8" "December 2013" "veritysetup" "Maintenance Commands"
 .SH NAME
 veritysetup - manage dm-verity (block level verification) volumes
 .SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -23,9 +23,8 @@ by \-\-hash\-offset option.
 Note you need to provide root hash string for device verification
 or activation. Root hash must be trusted.
 
-If data or hash device argument points to regular file, veritysetup
-allocates loopback device. In this case, hash file size must be enough
-to store the hash area.
+The data or hash device argument can be block device or file image.
+If hash device path doesn't exist, it will be created as file.
 
 \fB<options>\fR can be [\-\-hash, \-\-no-superblock, \-\-format,
 \-\-data-block-size, \-\-hash-block-size, \-\-data-blocks, \-\-hash-offset,
@@ -43,6 +42,19 @@ The <root_hash> is a hexadecimal string.
 If option \-\-no-superblock is used, you have to use as the same options
 as in initial format operation.
 .PP
+\fIverify\fR <data_device> <hash_device> <root_hash>
+.IP
+Verifies data on data_device with use of hash blocks stored on hash_device.
+
+This command performs userspace verification, no kernel device is created.
+
+The <root_hash> is a hexadecimal string.
+
+\fB<options>\fR can be [\-\-hash-offset, \-\-no-superblock]
+
+If option \-\-no-superblock is used, you have to use as the same options
+as in initial format operation.
+.PP
 \fIremove\fR <name>
 .IP
 Removes existing mapping <name>.
@@ -118,12 +130,14 @@ The first implementation of veritysetup was written by Chrome OS authors.
 This version is based on verification code written by Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
 and rewritten for libcryptsetup by Milan Broz <gmazyland@gmail.com>.
 .SH COPYRIGHT
-Copyright \(co 2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+Copyright \(co 2012-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
+.br
+Copyright \(co 2012-2014 Milan Broz
 
 This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
 warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
 .SH SEE ALSO
-The project website at \fBhttp://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/\fR
+The project website at \fBhttps://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup\fR
 
 The verity on-disk format specification available at
-\fBhttp://code.google.com/p/cryptsetup/wiki/DMVerity\fR
+\fBhttps://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup/wikis/DMVerity\fR