On 30 Dec 2025 at 2:23, Samuel Sieb wrote:

Date sent:              Tue, 30 Dec 2025 02:23:24 -0800
Subject:                Re: efivars showing 100% full??
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> On 12/30/25 1:47 AM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> > The machines show 384K, but ls command only and adding up the
> > sized of the 100 files only gives 36065.6??
> > Many files are very small, but even if they took 1K each or 2K each
> > would not be close to the 384K.
> > 
> > size of files listed under 1K -     5960
> > size of files listed over   1K -    30105.6 
> > combined total                              36065.6
> > 
> > sort by size last 13 files show
> >    304 Dec 29 23:59 Boot0000-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e09
> >    540 Dec 29 23:59 PBRDevicePath-a9b5f8d2-cb6d-42c2-bc01-
> >    977 Dec 29 23:59 PKDefault-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e0
> >    977 Dec 29 23:59 PK-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8
> >   1167 Dec 29 23:59 MokListRT-605dab50-e046-4300-abb6-3dd8
> >   1678 Dec 29 23:59 RstSataFastEnumVar-193dfefa-a445-4302-
> >   2052 Dec 29 23:59 DIAGEEPROM_VAR-8ebe3d07-3420-4bfa-8c13
> >   2574 Dec 29 23:59 KEKDefault-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e
> >   2574 Dec 29 23:59 KEK-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b
> >   4153 Dec 29 23:59 dbDefault-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e0
> >   4153 Dec 29 23:59 db-d719b2cb-3d3a-4596-a3bc-dad00e67656
> >   5419 Dec 29 23:59 dbxDefault-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e
> >   5735 Dec 29 23:59 dbx-d719b2cb-3d3a-4596-a3bc-dad00e6765
> > 
> > tried copying the files to regular partition, but none of the files
> > after the Boot0000 would copy?
> > 
> > duf shows
> > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars                 │ 384.0K │ 382.8K │    0B │
> > ███████████████▌ 99.7% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs
> > 
> > df shows
> > efivarfs              384       383          0 100% 
> > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
> > 
> > So, something seems to be using space, but not showing itself??
> On my computer, the files seem to be bigger than the used space.
> 
> I've heard mention of garbage collection, but the methods of triggering 
> it are uncertain.  That's why I suggested trying the factory reset in 
> the BIOS.  I think I've heard that sometimes just rebooting when it's 
> full can also trigger it, but I don't remember any details.
> 
> -- 
had tried reboot about 5 times, but nothing changed.

As my recent message. Removing the CDROM option made a huge 
change, but removing the windows did nothing??

So, am very confused. Fortunatly, my other 5 machines are not EFI 
setup. All running Fedora 43.

Thanks again, perhaps someone with have some magic information 
on the EFI to explain what happened and why??




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