Can I show drives in the dock?

Question

Drives appear in the sidebar of Finder windows, but I would like them to appear in the dock (as well), with a way to easily eject them. Is there a setting or other technique to make this possible?

@Redarm nice idea, but unfortunately that doesn't give an easy way to eject the drives. — Patrick Sanan, Jul 21 '21 at 11:27
@PatrickSanan If displayed as "Fan", or "Grid", the volume can be dragged to the trash to be ejected. — Redarm, Jul 21 '21 at 11:57
@PatrickSanan It's working as expected here on Big Sur. The only fault I can see with this method: when a volume is being actively used/tied up by some process, the eject will fail silently, where the Finder would display a message. — Redarm, Jul 21 '21 at 13:53

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '21 at 05:48

Prior to macOS Catalina, you can add a Recent Volumes stack to your Dock.

Add the ‘recents-tile’.

defaults write com.apple.dock persistent-others -array-add '{ "tile-data" = {"list-type" = 1; }; "tile-type" = "recents-tile";}' && killall Dock

Right-click the ‘Recent *’ stack and set it to show ‘Recent Volumes’.

In macOS Catalina, this functionality was removed: Catalina recent items stack in dock no longer working.

Can I show drives in the dock?

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