WSL2 on Windows 10 Build 20211

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide (note the minimum version required).

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>
  

WSL2 on Windows 10 Build 20211

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

However, there is a limitation with this approach as noted in the Microsoft documentation. For convenience, this limitation is noted here:

• At this time, only entire disks can be attached to WSL 2, meaning that it's not possible to attach only a partition. Concretely, this means that it's not possible to use wsl --mount to read a partition on the boot device, because that device can't be detached from Windows.

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide (note the minimum version required).

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>
  

Windows 10 WSL2

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide (note the minimum version required).

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>
  

WSL2 on Windows 10 Build 20211

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide (note the minimum version required).

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>
  

Windows 10 WSL2

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide.

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>
  

Windows 10 WSL2

Windows allows now to mount physical disks using the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL).

For people who are not familiar with WSL2:

... Windows Subsystem for Linux is a compatibility layer for running Linux binary executables natively on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2019. In May 2019, WSL 2 was announced, introducing important changes such as a real Linux kernel, through a subset of Hyper-V features. ...

find more on Wikipedia

The Windows 10 WSL2 now supports a mount command for linux filesystems called wsl.

First of all you have to install WSL2 on your windows10+ release. I recommend to simply follow the microsoft installation guide (note the minimum version required).

The following steps are taken from the microsoft's homepage docu wls2-mount-disk :

• Identify the disk

  Open a powershell (or something else) and type

  wmic diskdrive list brief
  

  The disks paths are available under the 'DeviceID' columns. Usually under the \.\PHYSICALDRIVE* format.

• List and select the partitions to mount in WSL2

  Note your disk to mount and enter:

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --bare
  

  Now the disk is available to the layer and you can use the common linux command

  lsblk
  

  as you know well from linux systems.

• Mount the selected partitions

  Identify your partitons and mount it using the following command

  wsl --mount <DiskPath> --partition <PartitionNumber> --type <Filesystem>
  

  If you ommit the --partition flag an ext4 filesystem will be choosen. Commands like help wsl or cat /proc/filesystems will give you more information about the options.

• Access the disk content

  Once mounted, the disk can be accessed under the path pointed to by the config value: automount.root. The default value is /mnt/wsl .

  From Windows, the disk can be accessed from File Explorer by navigating to: \\wsl$\\<Distro>\\<Mountpoint> (pick any Linux distribution).

• Unmount the disk

  To unmount and detach the disk run:

   wsl --unmount <DiskPath>