How do I manage the efivars directory?

elfprince

Axios Nope, no secure boot.

elfprince

Upon a short search online, I found that people report their OS running well even with efivars 100% full. So, I will relax (somewhat) and just see what happens in my case, if and when.
Yellow alert canceled.

brent

elfprince That is why I do not plan on doing that, ever.

I did it once via usb from the MSI mobo people's .(or whatever) and it worked. I was probably 15 years out of compliance. Went fine. Nothing changed. Sadly. Not performance, not boot log, not anything. But it didn't wreck anything, I would put your chances at 85/15 from my reading, but I agree: 15 is still a real double-digit number..

Axios

brent Have Done tons of firmware stuffs over the years on various electronics
never DoDo one yet. (even back in the day with Eeproms gawdddd I am old..)
The Nvram and those chips does have a limited numbers of write cycles and they do go bad in that case its just luck of the draw. (Dont think one would have issues with todays chips since they are more dense)
Otherwise one will be fine just dont interrupt the update cycle and follow instructions let it do its thing.
It does scare most people tho.

brent

Axios The Nvram and those chips does have a limited numbers of write cycles and they do go bad in that case its just luck of the draw. (Dont think one would have issues with todays chips since they are more dense)

that's interesting. hadn't thought it had X amt of cycles but hardware doesn't last forever.

Axios Otherwise one will be fine just dont interrupt the update cycle and follow instructions let it do its thing.
It does scare most people tho.

I agree. I was one of those people but not scared now. But I put myself in the right position to do that: after a new install. So I had little to lose.

@elfprince if you read positive 100% full stories than you are going to be fine. I read a lot too. And to be honest, for those worried about 100% I actually read of no side effects when they got to 100.

WetGeek

brent And to be honest, for those worried about 100% I actually read of no side effects when they got to 100.

I don't have any specific knowlege of this situation, but having considerable software design experience during my career, I strongly suspect that when that buffer is filled to 100%, subsequent additions simply overwrite older items. Thus, it continues to accept additions, it stays at 100%, and it works as expected, but the oldest data is overwritten.

That would explain why some can reach 100% and keep going as if nothing has happened.

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