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changeset 2508:fe9788ce44ba
Mounting Windows file systems.
| author | Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> |
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| date | Wed, 02 Jun 2021 16:39:36 +0300 |
| parents | 8e8c8adde585 |
| children | 6a1fb2d1bee7 |
| files | wsl.rst |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/wsl.rst Thu Apr 22 10:57:04 2021 +0300 +++ b/wsl.rst Wed Jun 02 16:39:36 2021 +0300 @@ -61,13 +61,34 @@ wslconfig /t debian wslconfig /terminate debian -Mounting external drives -======================== +Mounting Windows file systems +============================= + +From January 2018 WSL 1 allows to mount external NTFS file systems as ``drvfs``. ``metadata`` option +allows ``chmod`` operation on NTFS volumes, metadata will be shared across all WSL distros though. + +https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/chmod-chown-wsl-improvements/ + Chmod/Chown WSL Improvements. + +To preserve customization between WSL reloads update ``/etc/wsl.conf`` with something like:: -:: + [automount] + enabled = true + mountFsTab = false + options = "metadata,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,fmask=077" + +Equivalent CLI call is:: + + sudo mount -t drvfs 'C:\' /mnt/c -o metadata,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,umask=022,fmask=077 + +https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/automatically-configuring-wsl/ + Automatically Configuring WSL. + +To mount attached USB stick:: sudo mkdir /mnt/f sudo mount -t drvfs f: /mnt/f https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl-config ``/etc/wsl.conf`` configuration options. +