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June 20th, 2021 20:00
EFI System Partition (ESP) is full: how can I fix this?
On my XPS 15 9560, the ESP is full. It is 99MiB. Seems small to me, but I didn't choose the size.
Linux's firmware update daemon wants to load a Dell-provided firmware update into the ESP as a step towards flashing. But Linux says that there is not enough space.
Most of the space is taken up by Dell stuff, including restoration versions of firmware.
Is there a tool to get rid of things that no longer matter? A clean-up tool?
Resizing isn't particularly easy, but I can do it.
PS: it is great that Dell supports firmware updating under Linux. The Linux firmware update facility is very useful. It is vendor agnostic but the vendor needs to provide the appropriate blobs to the Linux firmware server.
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ohaya100
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April 28th, 2024 12:49
I know the above is an older post, but I am running into the same problem on my Dell Vostro running Windows 10. The EFI directory in the ESP partition got full. It appears that a dell.xxx directory gets created every time I visit the Dell Support website and log in, and different/various directories and files get added into that directory.
Eventually, the original ESP partition, which on my VOSTRO was 200 MB, got full and that caused Windows Updates to fail to install.
I use a boot/partition manager product from TerabyteUnlimited.com and I was able to use that to increase the size of ESP partition to 700MB, which then got the Windows update working again.
I have a post/thread in another section of this forum asking if it is all right to delete the older dell.xxx directories, because even at 700MB, the ESP will eventually start getting full again.
Just posting this info here in response to the above in case anyone runs into this again. I really don't understand why Dell doesn't delete some of those dell.xxx directories.
Jim