Hiding your Boot Camp partition icon from the desktop in OS X

I found this simple tip for hiding your Boot Camp partition's icon on your OS X Leopard desktop here, but that blog makes a meal of something very simple. So here it is in its simplest form.

Essentially you need to run SetFile from the developer tools and mark the mount as hidden:

/Developer/Tools/SetFile -a V /Volumes/Untitled (or whatever your partition is labelled)

then

killall Finder

to make the change take effect.

To reverse, simply use a lowercase V instead of the uppercase in the command above.

Obviously you need the Apple dev tools installed for this to work, but chances are if you're the kind of person who wants to do this, you'll have the dev tools installed (they're free).