Daily Tasks for Maintaining PCs

[healtheworld]

Mine is :-

For Windows

1. Defragmenting (once in a month)


2. Scandisk (Never Only of problem persists)


3. Virus Scan (Full scan after 4 weeks)


4. Spyware Scan (Every Week )

For Linux

I don't know what to do .

Please guide me.


Very Eager to hear from u guys ..








What's ur method ?

 

[Spyro]

I don't really have any daily upgrade plan for Linux. About every 6 months I switch distros on all of the workstations and I upgrade packages with any security fixes about once a week.

 

[jhu]

for linux, i just install whatever updates to programs that have documented security holes. and maybe upgrade the kernel every once in a while. otherwise no real daily tasks for maintenance.

 

[GhettoFob]

I do emerge -u system or emerge -u world every few days.

 

[dnuggett]

Originally posted by: healtheworld
Mine is :-

For Windows

1. Defragmenting (once in a month)


2. Scandisk (Never Only of problem persists)


3. Virus Scan (Full scan after 4 weeks)


4. Spyware Scan (Every Week )

Well what you posted really doesn't sound like daily things, but you are forgetting updates to the OS. 😉

That is unless you are using 98(SE) or NT 4.0

 

[Nothinman]

Nothing really. Keep updated packages installed but that's about it, there's not a lot of maintenance involved that hasn't already been automated and handled by the system, atleast on Debian.

 

[magomago]

is there a way to defrag on linux?

 

[Nothinman]

Yes and no, generally it's not needed. There was an ext2 defrag program at one time but it was more a proof of concept than anything else, noone maintains it and it's not safe on mounted volumes. XFS has xfs_fsr, but again it's not really needed.

For instance the root filesystem on my notebook:

# xfs_db -r -c frag /dev/hda5
actual 129492, ideal 128438, fragmentation factor 0.81%

And my notebook's /home:

# xfs_db -r -c frag /dev/hda6
actual 46178, ideal 45689, fragmentation factor 1.06%

/home gets a decent workout, transporting files to and from work and it's still only at 1% fragmentation.