Accessing removable media in Bash on Windows
Accessing removable media in Bash on Windows
Accessing removable media in Bash on Windows
Re: Accessing removable media in Bash on Windows
Good news, it is now possible to mount USB media (including formatted as FAT) and network shares with drvfs on Windows 10:
Mount removable media: (e.g. D:)
```
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d
```
To safely unmount
```
$ sudo umount /mnt/d
```
You can also mount network shares without smbfs:
```
$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share
```
You need at least Build 16176 so you might have to opt-in to the Windows Insider programm and then update Windows. Source: [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/)
Mount removable media: (e.g. D:)
```
$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d
```
To safely unmount
```
$ sudo umount /mnt/d
```
You can also mount network shares without smbfs:
```
$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share
```
You need at least Build 16176 so you might have to opt-in to the Windows Insider programm and then update Windows. Source: [https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/](https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/)