dbd - Man Page
CNID database maintenance
Synopsis
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 "appledouble = ea"
- -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
Author
See CONTRIBUTORS[1]
Notes
Referenced By
ad(1), afpd(8), cnid_dbd(8), cnid_metad(8).