Samuel Sieb composed on 2025-12-30 11:18 (UTC-0800):
> Felix Miata wrote:
>> Samuel Sieb composed on 2025-12-30 10:34 (UTC-0800):
>>> Felix Miata wrote:
>>>> Deleting any obsolete directories from /boot/efi/EFI/ should free up
>>>> space. This
>>>> includes any extra ESPs that are no longer used or required, but the
>>>> firmware
>>>> still finds existant.
>>> This has nothing to do with the EFI disk partition.
>> Hello? This what? If you mean the thread subject rather than what I wrote,
>> then
>> OK, but firmware must acquire some data it stores from ESPs. After all, a /
>> filesystem not in use has neither firmware/, nor efi/, nor efivars/ in
>> /sys/. It
>> has to come from somewhere when it is running.
> I have no idea what this is about. This thread was specifically about
> the efivars being full and that has absolutely nothing to do with disk
> drives and partitions.
>> EFI disk partition is a misnomer for the 32bit VFAT-formatted
>> EFI System Partition, aka ESP
>> which normally at the outset was designed to mount in GNU/Linux
>> installations to
>> /boot/efi/, before some fool notion came along to put kernels, initrds and
>> other
>> detritus on it as well, to mushroom its space requirement, and mix together
>> files
>> from multiple entire operating systems, rather than just de minimus for
>> bootloader
>> IPL.
> Each operating system should use its own directory in there. The only
> thing in there (at least for Fedora) is grub, shim, and an extremely
> minimal grub config that points to the main one, so again, no idea what
> you're talking about.
Mostly, how "efivars showing 100% full" could have come about, including litter
polluting an ESP filesystem.
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