ext4 Drive Mounting on Windows 10 | Arch Linux Community | Page 1

brazen void Aug 24, 2022, 2:42 AM

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hii! I THINK this belongs here, but it may not, and I apologize if that's the case:

I just installed Windows and still have my Arch set up. I have my drives set up like this: a drive for each OS, and 1 for general storage and namely games. Said drive is ext4 and I would like to mount it on Windows and have ran into a brick wall with it.
I've been following guides I stumble across, but whenever, in an admin-level PowerShell, I run wsl --mount [DISKPATH] it just runs wsl --help instead. I'm pretty sure I have WSL2 installed and all.

I'm using WSL2 with ArchWSL on Windows 10 Build 19044.

Thank you so much for your time in advance!!

opal thunder Aug 24, 2022, 3:04 AM

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I don't believe wsl2 supports mounting hardware, especially hardware the windows host won't mount.

brazen void Aug 24, 2022, 3:36 AM

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I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but I think I may have found my problem:
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2020/09/10/announcing-windows-10-insider-preview-build-20211/

Windows Insider Blog

Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 20211

UPDATE 9/11: Today we have released Cumulative Update Build 20211.1005 (KB4581021). This update does not include anything new and is designed to test our servicing pipeline. Thanks to reports from Windows Insiders who repo

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Starting with Windows 10 preview build 20211, WSL 2 now includes a wsl --mount command that lets you mount ext4 and other Linux kernel supported filesystems, directly in installed WSL distributions.
(Source: ||https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/windows-10-now-lets-you-mount-linux-ext4-filesystems-in-wsl-2/||)

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My Windows 10 Build is 19044

#ext4 Drive Mounting on Windows 10