On 3/21/24 17:48, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:37:18 -0400, Joe Salmeri wrote:
With the large jump in percent used, could there be an issue with fwupdmgr that is causing your issue ? It's possible, but I also wonder if your update happened to be larger than mine because you haven't updated your firmware recently as well. I was able to update to one of the intermediate database versions (I was previously at v217, I believe, and was able to update to 220, but haven't been able to go from 220 to 371, which was the next version available.)
It's also unclear to me what the block size is (I'm guessing because it isn't a real filesystem, it's effectively a single byte because the space isn't allocated like that, but I don't know for certain).
I actually saw the msg about that firmware update back when I built the system ( Nov 2023 ) but I didn't bother updating. While I was following this thread, I wasn't concerned until I did the update then saw the huge jump. Also, seems like the total size for people that commented has varied..... 64k, 128, and my 192k. Just found this link on another forum https://forum.garudalinux.org/t/efivars-is-full-is-this-a-problem/34616/13 IS it a problem for the efivars directory to be full? It is not a problem. /sys/firmware is not a “real” filesystem, it is part of a RAM-based filesystem called sysfs. The sysfs filesystem provides information about devices and drivers in the kernel through virtual files, so certain device properties can be interacted with using “normal” file operations. Since sysfs resides in memory, it is kind of a temporary structure that gets recreated fresh at every boot. There is no need to make it larger than whatever virtual files it needs to contain, so usually it appears to be full or nearly full. NVRAM and EFI boot variables are not related to the sysfs virtual filesystem. Make me wonder if that explains the difference in total size people are seeing and also that a large size might be allocated if it was needed. Possibly it is allocating space based on real memory size ??? How much memory is in your system ? I have 64 GB in this machine which might be why my size is 192k vs others with 64k or 128k ? -- Regards, Joe