Re: boot/efi partition FULL.

On 3/1/26 2:32 PM, George R Goffe via test wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm running FC45 (Rawhide) on a Vivobook with a 4TB SSD and 40GB memory... and am building the "latest" kernel from kernel.org. As an aside, I have to say that this system is NOT very good with fonts and any of the Fedora "releases; 42, 43, 44 and 45).
>
> At the end of the build... installing the kernel and running the "make install" command, the build failed with "out of space". It seems that /boot/efi (2GB) is full! Yikes!
>
> Are there guidelines on how to identify old data and remove it SAFELY? ANY pointers would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
>
> As things are right now, I'm afraid of screwing something up and breaking my one and ONLY system here... Probably because I don't know enough about EFI. Sigh... Again, ANY pointers would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
>
> It seems to me that the older and now unused data should be removed... by "magic" but either that process is broken or there's a "standard" methodology for cleaning up this (apparently) VERY important part of "our" systems that I'm unaware of.
>
> Another thing I have noticed. Kernel updates from the Fedora 45 repo seem to be SILENTLY failing. The only message I see is from dracut about a missing shadow file somewhere in /var/tmp....
>
> Again, ANY pointers would be VERY MUCH APPRECIATED.
>
George

Encountered the same problem. The buildup is in the /boot/efi/EFI/Linux 
directory.   It fills with entries of the form

    -rwx------. 1 root root 78974312 Feb 28 15:27 
2fda0fc4926a4894802cbde1280fadb0-6.19.4-300.fc44.x86_64.efi
   drwx------. 2 root root          4096 Feb 28 15:28 
2fda0fc4926a4894802cbde1280fadb0-6.19.4-300.fc44.x86_64.efi.extra.d
    -rwx------. 1 root root            190 Feb 28 15:28 
.2fda0fc4926a4894802cbde1280fadb0-6.19.4-300.fc44.x86_64.efi.hmac

For a workaround, you can manually delete the older entries that no 
longer apply to kernels you use.

Maybe a dynamic link will put the /boot/efi/EFI/linux file somewhere 
there is more room.


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