1. Ensure system is up to date (apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade) and that all applications we care about behave as expected.
2. Clean out /var/log - old syslogs, etc.
3. Clean everything out of /cscf-adm except for the .ssh directory.
4. Ensure /home is empty except for the lost+found directory.
5. Run an fsck on all filesystems.

-- MikePatterson - 31 May 2005

See UbuntuGradPCSetupChangLog for a history of changes.