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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by tiernano on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:50AM (#15904531)
the WSL does have full access to the file system... cd /mnt/c/ gets you access to the C drive...
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by discreditable on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @05:54AM (#15904561)
It can't work with network shares or non-ntfs volumes though.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by rhpistole on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:11AM (#15904988)
This was true in previous versions, but with the Fall Creators Update you can mount mapped network drives inside of Linux:

  sudo mount -t drvfs z: /mnt/z
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by discreditable on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @07:25AM (#15905079)
Now that's pretty cool. It even works for removable fat32 media!
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by tiernano on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:03AM (#15904603)
you know, i just noticed this... my ExFAT SD Card is not visible... hmmm....
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by satori99 on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:13AM (#15904656)
I think this is because WSL uses NTFS Alternate data streams to store linux file attributes, and they don't survive when a file is copied to a non-NTFS file system.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by sz4kerto on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:29AM (#15904735)
No, I don't think so. Alternate streams are only used inside the emulated Linux filesystem, not externally.
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Re:Microsoft Adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10 by jstarks on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @10:17AM (#15906121)
You may have to mount it manually.
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