On 12/30/25 11:10 AM, 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.
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