On Tue, Dec 30, 2025 at 4:16 AM Michael D. Setzer II via users <
[email protected]> 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?
>
I have a Dell Latitude 7480 with efivars size of 384K. It was over 90%
full, so I went into BIOS settings. I didn't change any settings, but now
have:
% duf /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
╭───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ 1 special device
│
├───────────────────────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────────────────────────┬──────────┬────────────┤
│ MOUNTED ON │ SIZE │ USED │ AVAIL │ USE%
│ TYPE │ FILESYSTEM │
├───────────────────────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────────────────────────┼──────────┼────────────┤
│ /sys/firmware/efi/efivars │ 384.0K │ 100.7K │ 278.3K │ █████
26.2% │ efivarfs │ efivarfs │
╰───────────────────────────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴────────────────────────────┴──────────┴────────────╯
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George N. White III
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