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How can I mount a removable USB drive in WSL?

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So I've gone through this tutorial and have gotten USBIPD up and running on Windows 11 and the Ubuntu WSL container. Now, how can I mount a USB Mass Storage Device in WSL so that File Explorer can see and access it? The USB is formatted as ext4. Thanks!

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I believe that guide is for other kinds of USB devices like SD cards. For mounting disks, including external USB disks I think you want this guide. Refer to the section "Mounting DrvFs". The following example uses the Windows D: drive.

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

I've never used it for ext4 but see no reason why it wouldn't work.

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Thanks! But that guide seems to only help mount Windows drives which have a letter assigned to them. USB drives formatted in ext4 don't have a letter assigned by Windows. Heck, they don't even show up in File Explorer.
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