![]() Select the drive you want to hide, and press Command-i to get information on it. ![]() Open Disk Utility, where you should see the list of volumes (partitions) for each drive on your Mac. The volume’s UUID can be found and copied here in the Disk Utility info window (click image for larger view). Don’t worry, the methods used here are entirely harmless and can easily be undone: If you have partitions showing on your Mac that you would like to hide, then you can do so, but will need to get under the hood with some Terminal commands. ![]() Of course, modifying the contents of these may destabilize your system or prevent some features from working properly, so you might want to prevent these from mounting. Some examples of this are the “EFI” or “Recovery HD” partitions on your boot drive, that support system functions but are not intended to be accessed directly however, in some cases (especially in dual-boot environments) you might find these showing up. However, there may be times when you might wish to keep a partition hidden, either because you do not use it, or because it is not intended to be shown in the first place. Generally when you either partition your Mac’s boot drive, or attach a secondary drive to your Mac, then provided the partition’s formatting is compatible with OS X, you should see it mount and be available in the Finder.
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