Disk management tools should prevent destroying recovery volumes

dcavalca commented

2022-12-22 13:22:24 +00:00

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Apple Silicon systems rely on recovery volumes to be able to boot. If these are destroyed the machine is effectively bricked, and restoring it requires a second system (e.g. another Mac with Configurator). See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon for details.

GNOME Disks, KDE Partition Manager, Blivet and Anaconda all need to be taught to flag these volumes appropriately and not let the user mess with them unless they pass a warning screen.

Apple Silicon systems rely on recovery volumes to be able to boot. If these are destroyed the machine is effectively bricked, and restoring it requires a second system (e.g. another Mac with Configurator). See https://github.com/AsahiLinux/docs/wiki/Introduction-to-Apple-Silicon for details. GNOME Disks, KDE Partition Manager, Blivet and Anaconda all need to be taught to flag these volumes appropriately and not let the user mess with them unless they pass a warning screen.