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I want to hide some local disks from left pane (Devices section) in Finder.

  • I want to remove them from the list of all disks at root level.
  • What is the command in terminal?

PS: I can't unmount them because they must be accessible for the system.

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Here you go

/usr/bin/SetFile -a V /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD

You will need to get the command line tools installed from Xcode if your system lacks the setfile program.

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There is no SetFile command in /usr/bin/ folder. It's not found by Finder on whole system disk. – brigadir Mar 19 '12 at 15:51
Hmm, that's odd... I suggest you go with the answer of gentmatt... My apologies, I'll check into this later this evening if you insist by doing it using the Terminal – Michiel Mar 19 '12 at 15:53
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Setfile gets installed as part of the command line tools from Xcode. Installation steps depend on which version of Xcode you have installed. – bmike♦ Mar 19 '12 at 16:02

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