Netatalk 4.2.0
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)