📅 2025-07-28 — Session: Optimized Disk Space and Managed Python Packages
🕒 10:10–10:45
🏷️ Labels: Linux, Python, Cache Management, Disk Cleanup, Package Management
📂 Project: Dev
⭐ Priority: MEDIUM
Session Goal
The session aimed to optimize disk space usage and manage Python packages efficiently across different environments.
Key Activities
- Linux Cache Management: Executed commands to list and clean cache directories on a Linux system, focusing on both user and system caches to free up disk space.
- Python Module Cleanup: Identified and cleaned heavy Python modules in both global and virtual environments, including reviewing and uninstalling large packages.
- Package Management Triage: Developed a strategy for reducing the size of Python package installations by removing large, unused packages.
- Disk Space Recovery Plan: Implemented a multi-step plan to recover disk space by removing unnecessary environments, cleaning caches, and auditing installed packages in a Conda setup.
Achievements
- Successfully freed up disk space by cleaning caches and removing unnecessary Python packages.
- Improved package management strategy for Python environments.
Pending Tasks
- Further audit of installed packages to ensure no critical dependencies are removed inadvertently.
- Continuous monitoring and management of disk space and package sizes to prevent future issues.