Regular maintenance

Hello,

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive) drive/partition
maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very light duty server system
(NTFS)?

chkdsk doesn't seem to be of much use for partition maintenance. Most of
the time, the errors it shows go away with time.

The purpose is to have a system running without any unnecessary hiccups --
"unnecessary" meaning that they could be prevented by a simple regular
routine check. (I'm not talking about backups -- that's another issue.)

Thanks,
Gerhard

Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive)
drive/partition maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop
or very light duty server system (NTFS)?

Dont bother to do anything.

chkdsk doesn't seem to be of much use for partition maintenance.

It does check for basic stuff like systems that rebooted due to a mains failure etc.

Most of the time, the errors it shows go away with time.

Yes, because most dont matter much.

The purpose is to have a system running without any unnecessary
hiccups -- "unnecessary" meaning that they could be prevented by a
simple regular routine check. (I'm not talking about backups --
that's another issue.)

You dont need to do anything. I dont bother to defrag.

Previously Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
Hello,

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive) drive/partition
maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very light duty server system
(NTFS)?

chkdsk doesn't seem to be of much use for partition maintenance. Most of
the time, the errors it shows go away with time.

The purpose is to have a system running without any unnecessary hiccups --
"unnecessary" meaning that they could be prevented by a simple regular
routine check. (I'm not talking about backups -- that's another issue.)

For drive maintenance I would recoment a full SMART self test every
14 days or so. It will find problems and correct marginal sectors
before they become bad enough to be unrecoverable. I have been
doing that on a Linux cluster with good results for 3 years now.

You should be able to script this with the smartmontools (google)
for fully automatic execution.

For filesystem maintenance, is there no NTFS specific checker?
Something like ''ntfsck'' (Unix naming convention, probably named
differently on Windows)? There should be one, maybe somebody else
here knows what it is called.

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote:

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive) drive/partition
maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very light duty server system
(NTFS)?

You should be able to script this with the smartmontools (google)
for fully automatic execution.

Thanks, I check that out.

For filesystem maintenance, is there no NTFS specific checker?
Something like ''ntfsck''

chkdsk. But it doesn't seem to be useful for this purpose.

Gerhard

1.good HDD cooling
2.good power supply
3. mirroring raid
4.regular backups
5. -- no maintenance

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Arno Wagner wrote:

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive)
drive/partition
maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very light duty server
system
(NTFS)?

You should be able to script this with the smartmontools (google)
for fully automatic execution.

Thanks, I check that out.

For filesystem maintenance, is there no NTFS specific checker?
Something like ''ntfsck''

chkdsk. But it doesn't seem to be useful for this purpose.

Gerhard

Previously Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote:

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive) drive/partition
maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very light duty server system
(NTFS)?

You should be able to script this with the smartmontools (google)
for fully automatic execution.

Thanks, I check that out.

For filesystem maintenance, is there no NTFS specific checker?
Something like ''ntfsck''

chkdsk. But it doesn't seem to be useful for this purpose.

chkdsk is generic for all Windows filesystems. There may be
something specific for NTFS.

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote:

what is the recommended practice for regular (preventive)
drive/partition maintenance on a typical Win2k/XP desktop or very
light duty server system (NTFS)?

You should be able to script this with the smartmontools (google)
for fully automatic execution.

Thanks, I check that out.

For filesystem maintenance, is there no NTFS specific checker?
Something like ''ntfsck''

chkdsk. But it doesn't seem to be useful for this purpose.

chkdsk is generic for all Windows filesystems. There may be
something specific for NTFS.

Nope, essentially because MS has chosen to do that in chkdsk and
because they have kept the details of NTFS very close to their chests.

In article , Gerhard Fiedler
writes

The purpose is to have a system running without any unnecessary hiccups --
"unnecessary" meaning that they could be prevented by a simple regular
routine check.

There's an alternative to chkdsk, you know.

My Computer, right-click drive, Properties, Tools, Check Now.

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Mike Tomlinson wrote:

There's an alternative to chkdsk, you know.

My Computer, right-click drive, Properties, Tools, Check Now.


That is chkdsk.