iPod drive maintenance

[Randman]

When I had my iPod (40GB, half with music, about 10GB with files, backups) plugged in to rip a new jazz CD my g/f got recently, I decided to go into Disk Utility and ran a Verify Disk on the iPod. It said the volume needed to be repaired so I went and and Repaired the volume.
I then ran DiskWarrior and it gave me a 35% reading so I went and did a Rebuild.
I've just done this so I haven't used the Pod yet. Everything seems to be the same and the music wasn't touched.
Anyway, my question is: Has anyone else done this? Will this help? How? Has anyone heard about drive maintenance on an iPod before?

 

[Macsith]

Good idea...you should treat it like another drive.

I run disk utility all the time as I use it as a external hard drive for moving files. For some reason the iPod used to freeze and disk maintenance fixed it. I even virus scan it from time to time.

Keeps a happy iPod

 

[mr. k]

My iPod is having lots of disk problems at the moment - it's giving me a heart attack each time I plug it into the computer.
Generally the first time I plug it in after a restart it locks up iTunes, and then after I force reset it it will transfer songs, but then the third time I hook it in it won't work at all - it has the "do not disconnect" screen, but doesn't show up in the finder or iTunes.
I'm trying to figure the thing out, but I might need to send it in to apple for replacement. Has anyone ever opened up their iPod? Somewhere I read that disconnecting and reconnecting the battery and drive could fix the more severe problems...
I think tomorrow I will run it into the apple store to get looked at by an employee, but I hope I can get the thing working!