Name

dbd — CNID database maintenance utility

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.

When run with the -f parameter, it will completely wipe the existing volume table in the database and create a new one from scratch. This can be used to for example convert from one CNID scheme to another.

Options

-c

convert from AppleDouble v2 to Extended Attributes 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 usage

The CNID backends maintains filename 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.

For when you want to operate on a Netatalk volume outside of an AFP client without sacrificing the integrity of the CNID database, you can use the nad(1) tool which updates the CNID records while modifying files.

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