Bug 504702 - dolphin should hide platform-specific partitions on Apple Silicon Macs
Summary: dolphin should hide platform-specific partitions on Apple Silicon Macs
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: dolphin
Classification: Applications
Component: panels: folders (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.04.1
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dolphin Bug Assignee
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Reported: 2025-05-23 16:25 UTC by Davide Cavalca
Modified: 2025-05-23 16:25 UTC (History)
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Description Davide Cavalca 2025-05-23 16:25:32 UTC 
SUMMARY
On Apple Silicon Macs running Fedora Asahi Remix, the NVME drive contains a number of partitions and APFS containers that should not be exposed to the user, but are currently listed under "Devices" in the left pane. These include:
- iBootSystemContainer -- usually the first partition, filesystem type "Apple Silicon boot"; there's nothing useful here, and if it's damaged in any way the system will not boot anymore and will require a DFU restore from a second machine
- RecoveryOSContainer -- usually the last partition, filesystem type "Apple Silicon recovery"; same issues as iBootSystemContainer

Additionally, Fedora Asahi Remix (and other distributions that leverage Asahi Linux) boots by installing a stub macOS in a 2-3GB APFS container (usually numbered right before the ESP); this is also not useful to expose to users.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. install Fedora Asahi Remix
2. open dolphin
3. observe the folders

OBSERVED RESULT
these are here

EXPECTED RESULT
these should not be here

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
The RPM version is dolphin-25.04.1-1.fc42.aarch64