Claude dumped 177GB of temp files in a day and filled a user's disk
kevinkern · x · 2026-09-27
Developer banteg reports Claude generated 177GB of temp files in a single day, filling his entire disk; kevinkern chimed in that his /tmp folder has already "started its own colony" and now lives on an external SSD. Runaway temp-file writes from AI coding tools are becoming a real-world operational headache.
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