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title: "💭 uv cache prune"
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date: 2025-07-09
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Good point to check on your uv cache if you are running low on disk space.  I checked mine today, and it wasn't too bad so I left it alone.

``` bash
du -sh `uv cache dir`
```

!!! note

    This post is a <a href="/thoughts/" class="wikilink" data-title="Thoughts" data-description="These are generally my thoughts on a web page or some sort of url, except a rare few don&#39;t have a link. These are dual published off of my..." data-date="2024-04-01">thought</a>. It's a short note that I make
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