MacOS – How to hide a local disk in Finder at root level

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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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