Need to cleanup Efivars, but how?
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I have rebooted my Acer Aspire CloudBook with multiple versions of Linux, Windows 10 and Chrome OS. Keep going back and forth because all have problems. Now I can only boot Linux Mint, nothing from USB. Reason efi partition is full. Efivars contains 96 items (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars).
How do I reset efi partition without bricking system?
boot usb uefi
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I have rebooted my Acer Aspire CloudBook with multiple versions of Linux, Windows 10 and Chrome OS. Keep going back and forth because all have problems. Now I can only boot Linux Mint, nothing from USB. Reason efi partition is full. Efivars contains 96 items (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars).
How do I reset efi partition without bricking system?
boot usb uefi
asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
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I have rebooted my Acer Aspire CloudBook with multiple versions of Linux, Windows 10 and Chrome OS. Keep going back and forth because all have problems. Now I can only boot Linux Mint, nothing from USB. Reason efi partition is full. Efivars contains 96 items (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars).
How do I reset efi partition without bricking system?
boot usb uefi
asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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I have rebooted my Acer Aspire CloudBook with multiple versions of Linux, Windows 10 and Chrome OS. Keep going back and forth because all have problems. Now I can only boot Linux Mint, nothing from USB. Reason efi partition is full. Efivars contains 96 items (/sys/firmware/efi/efivars).
How do I reset efi partition without bricking system?
boot usb uefi
asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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asked May 28 at 17:19
Tekola
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While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
– Michael Shigorin
May 29 at 10:43
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While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
– Michael Shigorin
May 29 at 10:43
While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
– Michael Shigorin
May 29 at 10:43
While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
– Michael Shigorin
May 29 at 10:43
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EFI System is just a file system. You have to decide what data is important to you there.
Efivars contains variables used by UEFI and stored in NVRam (probably an EEPROM) but 96 items isn't an unusually large amount.
You need to inspect the EFI System partition and decide what files are important. Chances are you just have many different distributions boot loaders in there. conventionally each distributions name will be a subdirectory of the ESP and you can delete these subfolders if the distribution is no longer in use.
If you're using EFI-Stub then copys of the kernel would likely be in the ESP maybe you have many old kernel versions. If you're using a boot loader like rEFInd or GRUB it will store some of its resource files in the ESP but usually only the ones it really needs.
You could also just have a really small ESP (sub-50mb) and so normal bootloaders and resources are just filling it.
answered May 28 at 19:49
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EFI System is just a file system. You have to decide what data is important to you there.
Efivars contains variables used by UEFI and stored in NVRam (probably an EEPROM) but 96 items isn't an unusually large amount.
You need to inspect the EFI System partition and decide what files are important. Chances are you just have many different distributions boot loaders in there. conventionally each distributions name will be a subdirectory of the ESP and you can delete these subfolders if the distribution is no longer in use.
If you're using EFI-Stub then copys of the kernel would likely be in the ESP maybe you have many old kernel versions. If you're using a boot loader like rEFInd or GRUB it will store some of its resource files in the ESP but usually only the ones it really needs.
You could also just have a really small ESP (sub-50mb) and so normal bootloaders and resources are just filling it.
answered May 28 at 19:49
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EFI System is just a file system. You have to decide what data is important to you there.
Efivars contains variables used by UEFI and stored in NVRam (probably an EEPROM) but 96 items isn't an unusually large amount.
You need to inspect the EFI System partition and decide what files are important. Chances are you just have many different distributions boot loaders in there. conventionally each distributions name will be a subdirectory of the ESP and you can delete these subfolders if the distribution is no longer in use.
If you're using EFI-Stub then copys of the kernel would likely be in the ESP maybe you have many old kernel versions. If you're using a boot loader like rEFInd or GRUB it will store some of its resource files in the ESP but usually only the ones it really needs.
You could also just have a really small ESP (sub-50mb) and so normal bootloaders and resources are just filling it.
answered May 28 at 19:49
jdwolf
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EFI System is just a file system. You have to decide what data is important to you there.
Efivars contains variables used by UEFI and stored in NVRam (probably an EEPROM) but 96 items isn't an unusually large amount.
You need to inspect the EFI System partition and decide what files are important. Chances are you just have many different distributions boot loaders in there. conventionally each distributions name will be a subdirectory of the ESP and you can delete these subfolders if the distribution is no longer in use.
If you're using EFI-Stub then copys of the kernel would likely be in the ESP maybe you have many old kernel versions. If you're using a boot loader like rEFInd or GRUB it will store some of its resource files in the ESP but usually only the ones it really needs.
You could also just have a really small ESP (sub-50mb) and so normal bootloaders and resources are just filling it.
answered May 28 at 19:49
jdwolf
2,362116
EFI System is just a file system. You have to decide what data is important to you there.
Efivars contains variables used by UEFI and stored in NVRam (probably an EEPROM) but 96 items isn't an unusually large amount.
You need to inspect the EFI System partition and decide what files are important. Chances are you just have many different distributions boot loaders in there. conventionally each distributions name will be a subdirectory of the ESP and you can delete these subfolders if the distribution is no longer in use.
If you're using EFI-Stub then copys of the kernel would likely be in the ESP maybe you have many old kernel versions. If you're using a boot loader like rEFInd or GRUB it will store some of its resource files in the ESP but usually only the ones it really needs.
You could also just have a really small ESP (sub-50mb) and so normal bootloaders and resources are just filling it.
answered May 28 at 19:49
jdwolf
2,362116
answered May 28 at 19:49
jdwolf
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answered May 28 at 19:49
jdwolf
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answered May 28 at 19:49
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While at that, could you try en.altlinux.org/starterkits there? I've implemented UEFI support there so sort of intereset in corner cases.
– Michael Shigorin
May 29 at 10:43