On 3/22/24 13:25, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 21:53:05 -0400, Joe Salmeri wrote:
I have the same concern !!!
One thing interesting, I've found since I started searching on this topic is that it sure seems like there are quite a few different links which are all recent ( last 6 months or so ) where people are running into the issue of efivars being full or almost full.
If you look at the list from my other msg where I sorted efivars by size, it seems that on my system these 4 items are about 50% of the consumed space
-rw-r--r-- root root 3/21/2024 13:15 10,448 dbxDefault-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c -rw-r--r-- root root 3/21/2024 13:15 17,964 dbx-d719b2cb-3d3a-4596-a3bc-dad00e67656f -rw-r--r-- root root 3/21/2024 13:15 23,216 VARSTORE_OCMR_SETTINGS_NAME-a3a3b874-7636-4182-ba1e-f52c584494e3 -rw-r--r-- root root 3/21/2024 13:15 33,481 StdDefaults-4599d26f-1a11-49b8-b91f-858745cff824 On your system, if you total the space used by all of the nodes in the filesystem, does it add up to the total space reported as used?
Andrei noted that on my system, it apparently does not.
Any idea how we "trick" the firmware into garbage collection ? I have rebooted and that didn't change anything the amount used. I also summed up the sizes and it is quite smaller than the used amount. df -h /sys/firmware/efi/efivars Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on efivarfs 192K 167K 21K 89% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars FYI, if you have pwsh installed on Linux is is really easy to sum up the values: ( dir /sys/firmware/efi/efivars | Measure-Object -Sum Length ).Sum 125253 125253 is only 122.3K quite different from the 167K that df is reporting as used. I will be interested to hear what you find out after talking to support. Feel free to email me directly.... Thanks -- Regards, Joe