Tiger Maintenance Tips

Adapted from Panther Maintenance Tips

Once a month:

1. Repair the Privileges

Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > First Aid
Select partition (not the whole hard drive)
Repair Permissions

2. Repair the Drive

Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility > First Aid
Select partition (not the whole hard drive)
Verify Disk
(To repair disk you need to startup from Mac OS Tiger Install CD)

3. Force the periodic maintenance

Applications > Utilities > Terminal
Type:

sudo periodic daily
sudo periodic weekly
sudo periodic monthly

Press return between each line and wait until the first command has completed to start the second one.
sudo periodic weekly takes the longest to complete.

After an application crash, a power failure or a force reboot:

1. Repair the drive first.
2. Repair the privileges.

If the computer slows down:

1. Force the preiodic maintenance
2. Update the pre-binding

Applications > Utilities > Terminal
Type:

sudo update_prebinding -root / -force
Reboot immediately after completion.

Before and after a system upgrade or installation of big application:

1. Repair the privileges.
2. Repair the disk.


[Granted that my disk had no issues despite numerous crashes, it may seem too much to "repair disk" every month.. I don't know.]