

Including removable USB sticks or CDs, and any network location youĬan reach in Windows all from within WSL.įile System Improvements to the Windows Subsystem for Linux Now, not only can you manually mount any drives on your system, we'veĪlso added support for other file systems such as FAT, as well as Previously, WSL would automatically mount all fixed NTFSĭrives when you launch Bash, but there was no support for mountingĪdditional storage like removable drives or network locations. (WSL) now allows you to manually mount Windows drives using the DrvFsįile system. In the latest Windows Insider build, the Windows Subsystem for Linux

It appears that while this information is correct for Windand below starting with Windit should be possible. Currently we only support fixed NTFS volumes. One of the WSL developers confirmed this was the case. Per-user (like some network maps, or Paragon's ext4fs driver for WSL queries system-wide drives for DriveFS letter mounts that are This is supported by the following statements: This means network shares wouldn't be accessible even if they were using the NTFS file system. It additionally appears to be limited to only NTFS partitions mounted by the system itself. It does not appear that WSL can access any partition that Windows itself cannot access. Is it possible to access the EXT4 partition from it?
