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Re: efivarfs_set_variable: writing to fd 8 failed



On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 04:04:40PM +0000, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> [ Re-adding the cc to the debian-efi list - please respond there
>   too... ]
> 
> On Sat, Jan 04, 2020 at 10:55:51PM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
> >> On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 03:39:32PM +0000, junky@mail.sheugh.com wrote:
> >> >Dear Maintainer,
> >> >
 
> Sorry, I possibly wasn't clear enough. For UEFI, the NVRAM is normally
> an entirely separate set of storage (typically a flash chip) managed
> by the motherboard's firmware. It's nothing to do with your SSD or
> hard drive, it's more like an updated version of how BIOS settings
> used to be stored.
> 
> One possible culprit here could be error logs stored in
> /sys/fs/pstore/ taking up lots of space. Could you check and see if
> you have any files there please?
> 

Best guess : 200 files of less than 2K each in /sys/fs/pstore

Richard 


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