Regarding the SSH tricks: If you change the port of SSH, change it to still use a port under 1024. On most Unix systems these are privileged ports that requir

Regarding the SSH tricks: If you change the port of SSH, change it to still use a port under 1024. On most Unix systems these are privileged ports that require root to open. This ensures that if there is a process listening there that it was opened by root and not some intruder hoping to get your password to sudo to higher privileges. Regarding removing reserved space: Be careful doing this on some file systems. Some filesystems may need to write more data to a journal or are set up with copy-on write and will not be able to delete files if you have no space left on the disk. Reserving a little extra space for this can be necessary. A little extra space also lets you have some space to work with if you need to temporarily create or move files before you can free up the space. Also, if you're going to use a non-standard port, set up your .ssh/config! Host s hostname server port 666 That is a little more versatile than setting up an alias as it will work from any shell and you can specify any ssh daemon in there. See `man ssh_config` for more info.