Name

       dbd — CNID database maintenance

Synopsis

       dbd [-cfFstuv] [volumepath]

       dbd [-V]

Description

       dbd  scans  all file and directories of AFP volumes, updating the CNID database of the volume. It must be
       run with appropriate permissions i.e.  as root.

Options

       -c

              convert from AppleDouble v2 to EA filesystem metadata

       -f

              delete and recreate CNID database

       -F

              location of the afp.conf config file

       -s

              scan volume: treat the volume as read only and don’t perform any filesystem modifications

       -t

              show statistics while running

       -u

              username for use with AFP volumes using user variable $u

       -v

              verbose

       -V

              display version info

CNID background

       The CNID backends maintains name to ID mappings. If you change a filename outside afpd(8) (shell, samba),
       the CNID database will not reflect that change. Netatalk tries to recover from  such  inconsistencies  as
       gracefully as possible.

See also

       cnid_metad(8), cnid_dbd(8)

Author

       Contributors to the Netatalk Project (https://netatalk.io/contributors)

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