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Windows Subsystem for Linux has a separate set of files that constitute the root file system of the Linux VM. These files are not currently accessible through t

Windows Subsystem for Linux has a separate set of files that constitute the root file system of the Linux VM. These files are not currently accessible through the File Explorer application. The announcement is that they will be (which is rather nice). I believe you can already access ext4 USB drives, but it's not native. Hopefully this will make it so.

karmakaze 7y ago
Thanks for the explanation. Seems like some sort of filesystem in a file (like in VirtualBox). I've always used a symlink to /mnt/c/Users/<username>/src or whatever I'm working on to avoid this issue.