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+<refentry id="dbd.1">
+ <refmeta>
+ <refentrytitle>dbd</refentrytitle>
+
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+
+ <refmiscinfo class="date">28 Dec 2012</refmiscinfo>
+
+ <refmiscinfo class="source">:NETATALK_VERSION:</refmiscinfo>
+ </refmeta>
+
+ <refnamediv>
+ <refname>dbd</refname>
+
+ <refpurpose>CNID database maintenance</refpurpose>
+ </refnamediv>
+
+ <refsynopsisdiv>
+ <cmdsynopsis>
+ <command>dbd<indexterm>
+ <primary>dbd</primary>
+ </indexterm></command>
+
+ <arg choice="opt">-fsv</arg>
+
+ <arg choice="plain"><replaceable>volumepath</replaceable></arg>
+ </cmdsynopsis>
+ </refsynopsisdiv>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Description</title>
+
+ <para><command>dbd</command> 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..</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>Options</title>
+
+ <variablelist>
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-c</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>convert from adouble:v2 to adouble:ea</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-f</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>delete and recreate CNID database</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-F</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>location of the afp.conf config file</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-s</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>scan volume: treat the volume as read only and don't perform
+ any filesystem modifications</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-t</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>show statistics while running</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-v</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>verbose</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry>
+ <term>-V</term>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>display version info</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+ </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>CNID background</title>
+
+ <para>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.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
+ <refsect1>
+ <title>See also</title>
+
+ <para><citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>cnid_metad</refentrytitle>
+
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle>cnid_dbd</refentrytitle>
+
+ <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry></para>
+ </refsect1>
+</refentry>