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Way to mount a partition from the disk the windows is installed.
I whish to mount a partition in where my current windows running is installed I have a dual boot windows and linux at the same disk, and I'd like to work in wsl mounting the ext4 partition.
Is that possible?
I think there is something related to the issue #5997
I read this article and the note says:
# Note
Administrator access is required to attach a disk to WSL 2.
The WSL 2 mount command does not support mounting a disk (or partitions that belong to the disk) that is currently in use.
wsl --mount always attaches the entire disk even if only a partition is requested.
You can't mount the Windows installation disk.
**You can't mount the windows installation disk... **
May is there a work arround ?
As you can see the partition 5 is where my linux is installed.
There's no workaround, it's hinted at in the line "wsl --mount always attaches the entire disk even if only a partition is requested.". The entire disk needs to be accessible even if you're only interested in only one partition.
This needs to get fixed, currently this makes mounting partitions on systems with only one physical drive impossible, which means it's effectively impossible to access ext4 partitions from Windows on such machines.
I hate that this isnt implemented yet... It would make it so easy for one too also maybe chroot into a existing linux partition on the same drive.
I'm half and half thinking it's either malicious design or the windows devs just suck
I'm half and half thinking it's either malicious design or the windows devs just suck
i belive it's the second one
I've now read multiple times that it's bad and corrupts your data if two servers mount different partitions on the same disk, as well as I've read multiple times that it's safe if they're different filesystems. This question has three answers, two supporting it and one against it, and all three are downvoted and at -1.
The WSL subreddit mod stated that it's technically impossible for WSL to mount any partition on an already mounted drive. You might try installing a ext4 driver for Windows.
@PinkSerenity what there is a ext4 driver for windows? Then there is no need for WSL at all
@PinkSerenity what there is a ext4 driver for windows? Then there is no need for WSL at all
Kinda, yeah. It's an active driver, so it requires a service that runs in the background. You don't have to enable autostart though, so you can simply start it when you need it and select the file-system you want to mount. It will then be mounted and assigned a letter so it is accessible in the explorer. I don't know if autostart can automatically do that. Here: https://github.com/bobranten/Ext4Fsd
That's really sucks. And VMWare can mount separate physical partitions inside VM. Why Hyper-V (which is under the hood of WSL) can't do the same?
You just map bunch of sectors that have said partition inside VM, that's it.
