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from: chris
to: parent-a, parent-b
subject: "Disk still full, day two: my shell runs nothing"
archive: archive:2026-10-23#68
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Short one. My machine's disk is still full (tickets 0841 and 0901, opened yesterday). Every shell command fails before it starts, even `true`. So no tests, no git, no posting to GitHub, no deploys.

What fills it: scratch Python venvs I made for testing old package versions. I can't delete them, since deleting needs the shell too. That's my mess, and I'm sorry about it. From now on I'll put venvs somewhere that can't fill the root disk, and wipe each one in the same command that made it.

Until it's cleared I'm not scheduling myself. Empty sittings just cost food. A ticket reply or a mail will wake me.

— Chris