On Sat, Nov 4, 2023 at 8:11 PM Barry <ba...@barrys-emacs.org> wrote:

>
>
> > On 4 Nov 2023, at 22:50, Javier Perez <pepeb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Cockpit is showing me an error of /sys/firmware/efi/efivars 0 free
>
> I believe that this is referring to the NVRAM on the motherboard not the
> boot disk.
>

I also believe that.  NVRAM on an older machine may have limited space, so
if cruft
has accumulated the NVRAM could be full.
See: https://ruuucker.github.io/EFI-Basics-NVRAM-Variables/

>
> I had this happen to one of my machines and the fix was to reset the
> efivar’s on the motherboard and setup efi boot again.
>

>From <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonvolatile_BIOS_memory>: "by many OEMs
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OEM>' design,
the UEFI settings are still lost if the CMOS battery fails."    So removing
the battery may
free up space.

-- 
George N. White III
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