Way to mount a partition from the disk the windows is installed.

[reisraff]

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.

[genghisun]

same problem here...
any other solution?

[sansugranes]

Same here...

[rsmirnov90]

Would love to know too...

[comzine]

Same here ...

[thomond]

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.

[OreoLamp]

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.

[itisluiz]

Oh wow, can't believe this isn't possible

[PointyToast]

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.