Took a risk and tried some things.
Remove the windows BOOT0000 and got no space.
Removed the CDROM one.
and now getting.
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars                 │ 384.0K │  61.8K │
317.2K │ ██              16.1% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs

Have no ideal, how that made it go from 99.7% to 16.1%?

My other dell notebook does list the CD Rom so not sure what on it
is have it show the space used??

# efibootmgr
BootCurrent: 0006
Timeout: 2 seconds
BootOrder: 0006,0002
Boot0000* Windows Boot Manager

HD(1,GPT,e4c3b478-65a3-419c-9bbc-72fd8089f807,0x800,0xfa000)
/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi57494e444f57530001000000880
00000780000004200430044004f0042004a004500430054003d007b
00390064006500610038003600320063002d003500630064006400
2d0034006500370030002d0061006300630031002d006600330032
006200330034003400640034003700390035007d00000002000100
000010000000040000007fff0400
Boot0001* Windows Boot Manager

HD(1,GPT,dc87929d-3847-4259-91fa-8f6dd53f780f,0x800,0x14500
0)/\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
Boot0002* Linux Firmware Updater

HD(1,GPT,96b31910-54bd-43ce-9164-775f9d2ea13d,0x800,0x12c0
00)/\EFI\fedora\fwupdx64.efi
Boot0003* Fedora

HD(2,GPT,edacc107-c81d-406a-bca5-f5d9b433a478,0x468b08,0xf0
00)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi
Boot0006* Fedora

HD(1,GPT,96b31910-54bd-43ce-9164-775f9d2ea13d,0x800,0x12c0
00)/\EFI\fedora\shimx64.efi

It did have windows at some point, so perhaps removing it might
free space but it is showing.

/sys/firmware/efi/efivars                 │ 384.0K │ 264.3K │ 114.7K │
█████████████▌       68.8% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs

So, am very confused with the efivars???

Thanks.


On 30 Dec 2025 at 1:19, Samuel Sieb wrote:

Date sent:              Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:19:20 -0800
Subject:                Re: efivars showing 100% full??
To:                     [email protected]
From:                   Samuel Sieb <[email protected]>
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> On 12/30/25 12:16 AM, Michael D. Setzer II via users wrote:
> > On one machine it shows 100%
> > efivarfs              384       383          0 100% 
> > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> > On this machine it shows
> > efivarfs             384       265       115  70% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> >
> > Looked online, but didn't find very useful info.
> > First machine has Fedora 43, and was a clean install to 42 on a
> > 2TB drive with 16G ram.
> > Second machine has gone thru a number of upgrades.
> >
> > duf shows slightly differrent
> > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars                 │ 384.0K │ 382.8K │    0B │
> > ███████████████▌ 99.7% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs
> >
> > First machine is brtfs for most partitions and second is ext4?
> >
> > Not clear if this is a real filesystem, or something in ram?
> >
> > Didn't find anything to resize it, some talked about gparted, and
> > some show using  but shows lots of stuff?
> > Machine has no Windows, or Floppy disk, or CD. Does have the
> > nvme 2T disk, and does have NIC.
> > Not sure why the size would be set to 384K?
>
> It's not a partition or a real filesystem, it's the UEFI nvram storage
> and if it gets too full, it can cause problems.  I've seen a reference
> to dump files that might need to be removed from there.
>
> You could also try factory reset in the BIOS.  This will probably remove
> the Fedora boot entry, but that will be automatically fixed when you try
> to boot from the hard drive.
>
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