dbd1
Cnid database maintenance
Usage
dbd [-cfFstuv]
[volumepath]
dbd [-V]
Overview
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
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-c -
convert from AppleDouble v2 to EA filesystem metadata
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-f -
delete and recreate CNID database
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-F -
location of the afp.conf config file
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-s -
scan volume: treat the volume as read only and don’t perform any filesystem modifications
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-t -
show statistics while running
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-u -
username for use with AFP volumes using user variable $u
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-v -
verbose
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-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.
Releases
6 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 4 times.
-F since Debian 10 (Buster);
-V since Debian 10 (Buster);
-c since Debian 10 (Buster);
-f since Debian 10 (Buster);
-t since Debian 10 (Buster);
-u since Debian 10 (Buster).
-d until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-e until Debian 9 (Stretch);
-x until Debian 9 (Stretch).