ext4) can now be mounted in Windows 10 and Windows 11 with WSL. In case you’d like WSL to be able to read your files, but not make any changes to them, you can also mount a drive in read only mode by specifying the -o ro option in your command.ĭrives formatted for Linux (i.e. Just make your changes to the bottom of the file. It’s safe to ignore any default lines that are already in this file. Problem: macOS allows reading of the stored content from a connected external hard drive but denies saving files to the drive. Now, WD external hard drive will be visible on the Desktop and in Finders sidebar as usual. For example, adding the following line will automatically mount the D: drive. Under Show these items in the sidebar, select External Drives. Rather than having to run mount commands every time you open WSL, we can mount the drives automatically and persistently by making some edits to the system’s /etc/fstab file. If you need to unmount a drive, you can use the normal umount Linux command. You can mount the drives wherever you like as long you use Microsoft’s DrvFs as the filesystem type in your mount command. First, unplug the EHD, unplug it from the mains and unplug and straighten the data cable. Of course, you don’t you have to use the /mnt directory. Remember to replace D: with whichever drive letter you’re trying to mount. Expand the folder to read Mac drive files on a Windows 10 PC. Choose the files & folders you want to view in the HFS+ drive. Run the following commands with sudo or the root user account. Click Autodetect to load the connected hard drive. In that case, we can mount them with the mount command. However, this doesn’t always work, as WSL may not mount these other drives automatically. So for your D: drive, you’d navigate to it in terminal with the following command. To access other drives and removable media like flash drives, you can try the /mnt directory.
Accessing secondary drives and removable media
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