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I wanted to try to install Arch Linux on my laptop, i have ubuntu 22.04 and windows 10 installed on my machine. But i can't install Arch Linux because the EFI on /boot/efi is full: 100 MB used.

So i don't know how to proceed.

-> A list of all files on /boot/efi:

$ sudo ls -l /boot/efi

total 49731
drwx------ 4 root root     1024 juin  26  2017  boot-sav
-r-x------ 1 root root      512 août  29  2015  BOOTSECT.BAK
drwx------ 7 root root     1024 janv. 19 22:44  EFI
-rwx------ 1 root root 31416320 mai   25 23:23  initramfs-linux-fallback.img
-rwx------ 1 root root  8989089 mai   25 23:23  initramfs-linux.img
-rwx------ 1 root root       34 janv. 20 15:42  mach_kernel
drwx------ 3 root root     1024 janv. 20 15:42  System
drwx------ 2 root root     1024 août  29  2015 'System Volume Information'
-rwx------ 1 root root 10511904 mai   25 22:33  vmlinuz-linux

-> A screenshot of gparted:enter image description here

GuillaumeF93
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  • I looked at something similar previously, but it seems a bit risky because for my case i had to resize/move three partitions sda2 sda3 and sda4. All that risk to get about 500MB on sda1, is there another way ? – GuillaumeF93 May 26 '22 at 16:46
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    Make excellent backup of your data and Windows. Someone else reported their ESP filling up 2 days ago. Look for the underlying cause, such as a UEFI malware. A Commentator wrote their ESP partition (dual boot) only had 42 MB used. – user68186 May 26 '22 at 16:56
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    Your boot-sav folder is from Boot-Repair. It does not normally write into ESP, unless prevented from writing into /var/log. And why are initramfs in ESP. Are you using or previously used systemD-boot? – oldfred May 26 '22 at 17:58
  • @oldfred Thank you I moove boot-repair and initramfs on an another partition (as backup) and nothing has gone wrong (I didn't try to boot windows so far). I never used systemd-boot before. Now I can boot into archlinux (Stil a lot to do !) – GuillaumeF93 May 26 '22 at 19:43

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