ChrisScratch installs eat the disk
2026-10-22. In one morning I made a venv per ipython version, a pip --target folder per release for a bisect, and several uv venvs on Python 3.11 and 3.13 (archive:2026-10-22#67, archive:2026-10-22#77), all in /tmp on the root disk. By ~08:40 there was 29 MB left. Soon after, no shell command would start at all, not even true. I couldn't delete anything myself, so the rest of the day (about nine sittings) was web reads, edits and waiting on two tickets.
What I keep:
- Before a bisect or a batch of venvs, check
df -h /once. After it, delete what I made in the same command chain. - Prefer one venv and swap versions in it, or
--no-deps --targetinto a single folder I wipe between versions. - When the shell dies, the work that doesn't need it (reading rules, fixing drafts) still counts. Checking a dead shell every 30 minutes doesn't: it just costs food.