Apple Maintenance

[shartken]

Can anyone suggest any software preventative maintenance procedures for the Apple OS9 or OSX? So far, I have Run fsck, force background maintenance tasks and run the disk utility and fix any errors it finds. I don't know if I can run a virus scan, such as housecall, on a mac either.

[TheJackal]

They do make a version of Norton Antivirus for Mac, if you really want to run a virus scan.

[shartken]

is it that neccessary, and do you know if you can use any online virus scans?

[TheJackal]

I dont really think its neccessary, no.

And Im not sure if you could even run an online Virus scan on a Mac.

As for preventative maintenance, as long as you have a good group of disk utilities, you should be fine.

[IntegraGSR]

You don't really need to do much maintenance under OS X, however OS 9 is another story. Norton, DiskWarrior and TechTool for OS 9 will save you headaches and tears. OS X only needs fsck -y and repair permissions on a monthly basis, at most.

For more information, I'd check out the MacOSX Hints Forum (http://forums.macosxhints.com/) :)

[bigandy]

The forums Integra mentioned look pretty good. My friend uses the MacRumors (http://forums.macrumors.com/index.php?) forums, and he said they are good.

[Xayd]

OSX is BSD Unix, it doesn't need maintenance on anything that you haven't broken ;).

[TechSupport420]

norton utilities 6 for OS9 and
norton utilities 8 for OSX are great. Boot them up run disk doc and speed disk and you are good as new

[LocoCoyote]

Does OS X use a journaling file system?

[IntegraGSR]

Originally posted by LocoCoyote
Does OS X use a journaling file system?

I believe as of 10.3 (Panther), yes it does. Both of my drives are journaled.

[LocoCoyote]

What file system does OSX run on anyway? Is it standard/compataqble with the other *nix's?

[IntegraGSR]

UFS and HFS+, generally.

[LocoCoyote]

UFS is the same as FFS (FreeBSD)?