On 30 Dec 2025 at 11:07, Felix Miata wrote:
Subject: Re: efivars showing 100% full??
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> Samuel Sieb composed on 2025-12-30 02:23 (UTC-0800):
>
> > 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Removing obsolete entries from NVRAM is one of efibootmgr's features.
Very confused at this point. Machine that was showing efivars at
99.7% full is now showing
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars │ 384.0K │ 61.8K │ 317.2K │ ██
16.1% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs
Deleted the windows Boot0000 and reboot, but no change showed?
Still 1.2K free.
Then deleted a CDrom/DVD one, and now get the above results.
Don't know if was some delayed change or if the CDROM one was
300+K in size? Numbers don't seem to match?
On my other Dell Lattitude 5580, does list a CDROM option at all.
duf showing it at 68.8% full?
/sys/firmware/efi/efivars │ 384.0K │ 264.3K │ 114.7K │
█████████████▌ 68.8% │ efivarfs │ efiv
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
Looking at files in /boot/efi
.:
total 12
-rwx------. 1 root root 34 Mar 21 2025 mach_kernel
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 2025 System
drwx------. 5 root root 4096 Mar 14 2025 EFI
./System:
total 4
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Mar 21 2025 Library
./System/Library:
total 4
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Aug 31 14:47 CoreServices
./System/Library/CoreServices:
total 4
-rwx------. 1 root root 384 Mar 21 2025 SystemVersion.plist
./EFI:
total 12
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Aug 31 14:47 fedora
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Mar 14 2025 BOOT
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Nov 19 2024 Dell
./EFI/fedora:
total 17956
-rwx------. 1 root root 3022144 Jun 5 2025 gcdia32.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 4037952 Jun 5 2025 gcdx64.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 3022144 Jun 5 2025 grubia32.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 4037952 Jun 5 2025 grubx64.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 159 Mar 3 2025 grub.cfg
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 2024 fw
-rwx------. 1 root root 66729 Apr 15 2024 fwupdx64.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 112 Mar 19 2024 BOOTIA32.CSV
-rwx------. 1 root root 110 Mar 19 2024 BOOTX64.CSV
-rwx------. 1 root root 673992 Mar 19 2024 mmia32.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 848080 Mar 19 2024 mmx64.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 949424 Mar 19 2024 shim.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 747681 Mar 19 2024 shimia32.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 949424 Mar 19 2024 shimx64.efi
./EFI/fedora/fw:
total 0
./EFI/BOOT:
total 1820
-rwx------. 1 root root 747681 Mar 19 2024 BOOTIA32.EFI
-rwx------. 1 root root 949424 Mar 19 2024 BOOTX64.EFI
-rwx------. 1 root root 70360 Mar 19 2024 fbia32.efi
-rwx------. 1 root root 87816 Mar 19 2024 fbx64.efi
./EFI/Dell:
total 4
drwx------. 3 root root 4096 Nov 19 2024 Bios
./EFI/Dell/Bios:
total 4
drwx------. 2 root root 4096 Nov 19 2024 Recovery
./EFI/Dell/Bios/Recovery:
total 19300
-rwx------. 1 root root 9879796 Nov 19 2024 BIOS_CUR.RCV
-rwx------. 1 root root 9879089 Aug 20 2024 BIOS_PRE.rcv
Only BIOS_PRE.rcv seems somewhat old?
So, very confused? Hopefully, someone might have an explanation.
This is my main working machine? so at 68% will probable wait to
try things that might cause issues. Its all clear as mud.
Thanks to all that have replied.
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