MountHelper
Tool to mount and unmount external drives on WSL. Run with PowerShell in Administrator mode.
# In Windows powershell
PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\Code\MountHelper\MountHelper.ps1 mount
Found drive 'Seagate Portable SCSI Disk Device' with DeviceID '\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1'
Mounting...
The disk was successfully mounted as '/mnt/wsl/PHYSICALDRIVE1p1'.
Note: The location will be different if you have modified the automount.root setting in /etc/wsl.conf.
To unmount and detach the disk, run 'wsl.exe --unmount \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1'.
PS C:\Windows\system32> C:\Code\MountHelper\MountHelper.ps1 unmount
Found drive 'Seagate Portable SCSI Disk Device' with DeviceID '\\.\PHYSICALDRIVE1'
Unmounting...
The operation completed successfully.After running mount, you will be able to access the drive from the path displayed.
# In WSL bash
benjis@WSL:/mnt/c/Windows/system32$ ls /mnt/wsl/PHYSICALDRIVE1p1
Files lost+found