I have folders in the MBR for OSes that are no longer installed.
I wanted to make sure that it is safe to simply delete those folders.
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demo@mx1:/media/EFI_SYSTEM
$ ll EFI
total 28K
drwxrwxr-x 2 demo users 4.0K Nov 13 00:22 BOOT
drwxrwxr-x 2 demo users 4.0K Nov 13 00:22 fedora
drwxrwxr-x 2 demo users 4.0K Apr 18 18:52 Garuda
drwxrwxr-x 4 demo users 4.0K Dec 8 13:11 Microsoft
drwxrwxr-x 2 demo users 4.0K Feb 6 2024 MX
drwxrwxr-x 7 demo users 4.0K Apr 19 21:59 refind
drwxrwxr-x 2 demo users 4.0K Jan 29 11:22 tools
demo@mx1:/media/EFI_SYSTEM
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Snapshot created on: 20241228_1235
System:
Kernel: 6.14.2-1-liquorix-amd64 [6.14-3~mx23ahs+1] arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.2.0 parameters: audit=0
intel_pstate=disable amd_pstate=disable BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-6.14.2-1-liquorix-amd64
root=UUID=<filter> ro no
Desktop: Xfce v: 4.20.0 tk: Gtk v: 3.24.38 info: xfce4-panel wm: xfwm v: 4.20.0 vt: 7 dm: SDDM
Distro: MX-23.6_ahs_x64 Libretto October 15 2023 base: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: ASUS product: N/A v: N/A serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: ProArt X670E-CREATOR WIFI v: Rev 1.xx serial: <superuser required>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1904 date: 01/29/2024
CPU:
Info: model: AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D bits: 64 type: MT MCP MCM arch: Zen 4 gen: 5 level: v4
note: check built: 2022+ process: TSMC n5 (5nm) family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x61 (97) stepping: 2
microcode: 0xA601206
Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 16 tpc: 2 threads: 32 dies: 2 smt: enabled cache: L1: 1024 KiB
desc: d-16x32 KiB; i-16x32 KiB L2: 16 MiB desc: 16x1024 KiB L3: 128 MiB desc: 1x32 MiB, 1x96 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 3025 high: 4200 min/max: 3000/4200 boost: enabled scaling:
driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: ondemand cores: 1: 2994 2: 2994 3: 2994 4: 3000 5: 2994 6: 3000
7: 3000 8: 3000 9: 2821 10: 3000 11: 3000 12: 3000 13: 2834 14: 3000 15: 3000 16: 3000 17: 3000
18: 3000 19: 3000 20: 3000 21: 3000 22: 3000 23: 3000 24: 3000 25: 3000 26: 3000 27: 3000
28: 3000 29: 3000 30: 3000 31: 4200 32: 3000 bogomips: 268295
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm
Vulnerabilities:
Type: gather_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: ghostwrite status: Not affected
Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
Type: l1tf status: Not affected
Type: mds status: Not affected
Type: meltdown status: Not affected
Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
Type: reg_file_data_sampling status: Not affected
Type: retbleed status: Not affected
Type: spec_rstack_overflow mitigation: Safe RET
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Enhanced / Automatic IBRS; IBPB: conditional; STIBP: always-on;
RSB filling; PBRSB-eIBRS: Not affected; BHI: Not affected
Type: srbds status: Not affected
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: AMD Navi 32 [Radeon RX 7700 XT / 7800 XT] vendor: Sapphire driver: amdgpu v: kernel
pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: DP-2 empty: DP-1, HDMI-A-1, HDMI-A-2,
Writeback-1 bus-ID: 03:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:747e class-ID: 0300
Device-2: AMD Raphael vendor: ASUSTeK driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: RDNA-2 code: Navi-2x
process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2020-22 pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 ports: active: none
empty: DP-3, DP-4, HDMI-A-3, Writeback-2 bus-ID: 6e:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:164e class-ID: 0300
temp: 38.0 C
Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.21.1.7 compositor: xfwm v: 4.20.0 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,radeon,vesa dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0.0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2560x1440 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 678x382mm (26.69x15.04") s-diag: 778mm (30.64")
Monitor-1: DP-2 mapped: DisplayPort-1 model: Dell S3220DGF serial: <filter> built: 2020
res: 2560x1440 dpi: 93 gamma: 1.2 size: 697x392mm (27.44x15.43") diag: 806mm (31.7") ratio: 16:9
modes: max: 2560x1440 min: 720x400
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 Mesa 24.2.8-1mx23ahs renderer: AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT (radeonsi navi32 LLVM
15.0.6 DRM 3.61 6.14.2-1-liquorix-amd64) direct-render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: AMD Navi 31 HDMI/DP Audio driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s
lanes: 16 bus-ID: 03:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:ab30 class-ID: 0403
Device-2: AMD Rembrandt Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel
v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 6e:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1640 class-ID: 0403
Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h/1ah HD Audio vendor: ASUSTeK driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie:
gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 16 bus-ID: 6e:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
API: ALSA v: k6.14.2-1-liquorix-amd64 status: kernel-api tools: alsamixer,amixer
Server-1: PipeWire v: 1.0.0 status: active with: 1: pipewire-pulse status: active
2: wireplumber status: active 3: pipewire-alsa type: plugin 4: pw-jack type: plugin
tools: pactl,pw-cat,pw-cli,wpctl
Network:
Device-1: Intel Ethernet I225-V vendor: ASUSTeK driver: igc v: kernel pcie: gen: 2 speed: 5 GT/s
lanes: 1 port: N/A bus-ID: 0a:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:15f3 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth1 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Aquantia AQtion AQC113CS NBase-T/IEEE 802.3an Ethernet [Antigua 10G] vendor: ASUSTeK
ProArt X570-CREATOR WIFI driver: atlantic v: kernel pcie: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s lanes: 1
link-max: lanes: 2 port: N/A bus-ID: 0b:00.0 chip-ID: 1d6a:94c0 class-ID: 0200
IF: eth0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: nordtun state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: N/A
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 38.33 TiB used: 1.15 TiB (3.0%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: WD BLACK SN770 2TB
size: 1.82 TiB block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 731100WD temp: 33.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/nvme1n1 maj-min: 259:3 vendor: TeamGroup model: TM8FPW004T size: 3.73 TiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 63.2 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
rev: SN12717 temp: 40.9 C scheme: GPT
ID-3: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: TeamGroup model: T-FORCE 2TB size: 1.86 TiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD serial: <filter> rev: 0A0 scheme: MBR
ID-4: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital model: WD101KFBX-68R56N0 size: 9.1 TiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
rev: 0A03 scheme: GPT
ID-5: /dev/sdc maj-min: 8:32 vendor: Seagate model: ST20000NM007D-3DJ103 size: 18.19 TiB
block-size: physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD rpm: 7200 serial: <filter>
rev: SN01 scheme: GPT
ID-6: /dev/sdd maj-min: 8:48 type: USB vendor: Samsung model: PSSD T7 Shield size: 3.64 TiB
block-size: physical: 512 B logical: 512 B type: SSD serial: <filter> scheme: GPT
SMART Message: Unknown USB bridge. Flash drive/Unsupported enclosure?
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 249.98 GiB size: 245 GiB (98.01%) used: 71.87 GiB (29.3%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/dm-0 maj-min: 253:0 mapped: luks-<filter>
ID-2: /boot raw-size: 1024 MiB size: 973.4 MiB (95.06%) used: 546.4 MiB (56.1%) fs: ext4
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p2 maj-min: 259:5
ID-3: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%) used: 46 MiB (9.0%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/nvme1n1p1 maj-min: 259:4
Swap:
Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 49.0 C mobo: 31.0 C
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
GPU: device: amdgpu temp: 49.0 C mem: 66.0 C fan: 47 watts: 22.00 device: amdgpu temp: 39.0 C
Repos:
Packages: pm: dpkg pkgs: 3014 libs: 1572 tools: apt,apt-get,aptitude,nala,synaptic pm: rpm
pkgs: 0 pm: flatpak pkgs: 0
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list
No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu-proprietary.list
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/amdgpu.list
1: deb https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu/5.7.2/ubuntu focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/brave-browser-release.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://brave-browser-apt-release.s3.brave.com/ stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian-stable-updates.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/debian.list
1: deb http://deb.debian.org/debian bookworm main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
2: deb http://security.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mx.list
1: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm main non-free
2: deb http://la.mxrepo.com/mx/repo/ bookworm ahs
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nordvpn.list
1: deb https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/rocm.list
1: deb [arch=amd64] https://repo.radeon.com/rocm/apt/5.7.2 focal main
Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extrepo_librewolf.sources
1: deb [arch=amd64 arm64] https://repo.librewolf.net librewolf main
Info:
Processes: 637 Uptime: 26m wakeups: 1 Memory: 125.01 GiB used: 3.27 GiB (2.6%) Init: SysVinit
v: 3.06 runlevel: 5 default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.2.0 alt: 12
Client: shell wrapper v: 5.2.15-release inxi: 3.3.26
Boot Mode: UEFI