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Amaresh Kumar Sharma
Amaresh Kumar Sharma

Reputation: 753

Is there a way to access a WSL folder from the Windows host or vice versa?

I've Windows 2010 home ed installed and on top i have installed Ubuntu extension support by Windows.

I've started wrting my project there but not sure how to access directory in Ubuntu from my windows system (host)

any thoughts? Thanks in advance

I'd prefer to not use any external tool for it.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 10279

Answers (3)

Arun
Arun

Reputation: 20383

In Windows 11 Home, the Linux/Ubuntu folder automatically shows up in Windows Explorer.

In Linux/Ubuntu, the Windows filesystem shows up under /mnt/<mountname>/c. [The "mountname" was a choice provided during the WSL2 installation.] I can access Windows "My Documents" folder through the path: /mnt/arun/c/Users/arun/Documents/.

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Upvotes: 3

Amaresh Kumar Sharma
Amaresh Kumar Sharma

Reputation: 753

figured out lately and as mentioned by @imbuedHope, from wsl command bash shell, you can open current directory by specifying . as follows:

explorer.exe .  //notice the dot

then u could navigate using windows explorer to wherever u want.

Upvotes: 3

imbuedHope
imbuedHope

Reputation: 563

In Windows10 after the may 2019 update, the expected way to access WSL files from windows is via the mounted network drive.

You can access it at \\wsl$\<distro> via explorer, etc. You can even just launch explorer from wsl by running explorer.exe from your WSL shell.

See the dev blog post here for more info: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/whats-new-for-wsl-in-windows-10-version-1903/

To access the Windows10 filesystem you can just use the mounted filesystem at /mnt/<drive_letter> in WSL

Upvotes: 13

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