On 3/21/24 21:02, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:54:46 -0400, Joe Salmeri wrote:
Also, seems like the total size for people that commented has varied..... 64k, 128, and my 192k. It's NVRAM in the system firmware itself - different vendors (and even different systems from the same vendor) use different amounts, because it depends on what the system's requirements are.
Right. And I suspect my system has 192k because of the fact that it a top of the line motherboard ( ASUS only makes one that is more expensive ).
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. Well, it's a filesystem representation of stuff in NVRAM. If you delete files there, you're modifying NVRAM, and you can brick your system (which is why I'm concerned about just deleting stuff to make space - I don't need a multi-thousand-dollar doorstop.)
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 -- Regards, Joe