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I have a laptop which I've dual-booted with Ubuntu and Windows 10.

My goal is to use a bash shell inside windows to access the linux partition.

Inside Windows, I've installed the Linux subsystem and also used Ext2Fsd to create a D:// drive for the Linux system.

In the Bash shell, though, I can only see the C:// drive. How can I access the D:// drive?

I tried creating a shortcut in windows, but it makes .lnk file that I'm not sure how to follow in Linux.

max pleaner
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How can I access the D:// drive?

It will only be pseudo-mounted if it is fixed drive and formatted as NTFS.

Note that we don't currently support mounting drives in WSL - we pseudo-mount fixed NTFS drives in your machine, but cannot currently mount removable (e.g. USB) drives or non-NTFS drives

Source - comment by Richard Turner who works for the Microsoft WSL team.

In order for a drive to show up under /mnt/ it must meet the following criteria:

  1. The drive must be a fixed drive
  2. The drive must be formatted to NTFS.

This has been raised as an issue: Drives other than C: are not mounted in /mnt #1079. It is still marked as "Open".

To facilitate interoperability with Windows, WSL uses the DrvFs file system. WSL automatically mounts all fixed drives with supported file systems under /mnt, such as /mnt/c, /mnt/d, etc. Currently, only NTFS and ReFS volumes are supported.

Source WSL File System Support

Further Reading

DavidPostill
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    I'm kind of having a hard time turning this into an actionable plan. Are you saying that if the drive is Ext, it's impossible to mount it? I already have the drive in Windows mounted at D:// using the Ext2Fsd program. I just need to add it to the Bash. And where is this mount command run? Linux or Windows? – max pleaner Apr 12 '17 at 17:33
  • @maxpleaner As far as I know yes. The mount command is run in bash. I don't have WIndows 10 so I can't confirm the bug report. – DavidPostill Apr 12 '17 at 17:34
  • @DavidPostill - Note that WSL doesn't currently support manually mounting drives. WSL itself pseudo-mounts your fixed NTFS drives, but users cannot manually do this yet. – Richard Turner Apr 13 '17 at 20:01
  • @RichardTurner Oh. That's good to know. Will the fixed drive limitation be fixed soon? I will update the answer. – DavidPostill Apr 13 '17 at 20:02
  • It's something we're keen to remedy, but requires some additional engineering that we have to prioritize and schedule. No timeline to share at this point. Thx. – Richard Turner Apr 13 '17 at 20:04
  • @RichardTurner Thanks. It's good to have you on board answering WSL questions! :) – DavidPostill Apr 13 '17 at 20:06
  • @maxpleaner Answer updated, mounting drives is not currently supported by WSL. – DavidPostill Apr 13 '17 at 20:10