Published on: 2025-11-20 03:23:04
Defragging my old Dell's UEFI NVRAM 2025-02-22 I’m setting up an old Dell box (2011-era tech). I was migrating to some new boot drives and setting up grub on them again. Got to the point of deleting the old boot entries and adding new ones, and got an error like Could not prepare boot variable: No space left on device . Weird, because there weren’t that many EFI variables, but df -h also reported that efivars was full: efivarfs 64K 60K 0K 100% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars funky. It wasn’t due t
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