efivars

Bjørn Mork bjorn at mork.no
Thu Sep 23 03:32:00 EDT 2021


Ruben Safir <ruben at mrbrklyn.com> writes:

> I really just want to know what efi varriables exist and why we have a
> sys file for them

The "why" question is answered here:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/efivarfs.rst

The "what" question doesn't have a short answer.  If you don't want the
long one, then that's fine.  You don't need to worry about efi
variables.  Leave them alone and they will do you no harm.


Bjørn



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