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mounting an external disk: a simpler way is not mentioned #1760

Closed jungshik closed 1 year ago

jungshik commented 1 year ago

Documentation Issue

The page below does not mention the simplest (and more importantly, actually working) method.

Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but wsl --mount after getting the physical drive does not work. I keep getting the error message that the disk is in use even though I make sure that no other program (including File Explorer) is accessing it.

However, in Linux shell, sudo mount -t drvfs e: /mnt/e works like charm.

This method should be mentioned.

Link to documentation page

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk

Suggested Improvements

sudo mount -t drvfs e: /mnt/e : the simplest alternative should be mentioned.

mattwojo commented 1 year ago

Thanks for bringing this up @jungshik. I added more context to the WSL mount doc and included more details about when to use sudo mount -t drvfs vs wsl --mount in: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/WSL/commit/1bad5506524a3b3ff68f006a70c67462bdcae478

The main diff is whether the drive you are mounting is formatted for Windows (NTFS) or for Linux (Ext4).