Re: boot/efi partition FULL.

On 3/1/26 9:55 PM, Robert McBroom via test wrote:
> 
> 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

Are you using "make install" as well?  I think you've triggered some 
special installation mode.  It shouldn't be installing there and I don't 
even know what that file is.

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