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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by PascLeRasc on Thursday April 07, 2022 @05:33PM (#30950605)
Can WSL 2 interact with files outside itself yet? For example, can it run imagemagick commands on a file in C:/Users/name/Downloads? The last time I used it you couldn't do this and all the mounting workarounds had a chance to break the file.
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Re:Using Windows after 15 years on Linux by geek_at on Thursday April 07, 2022 @06:00PM (#30950848)
yes. By default all your harddrives (even freshly decrypted veracrypt volumes) are found as mountpoints in /mnt. So nstead of C:\users\name\Download you'd go to /mnt/c/users/name/Download

But usually you don't even have to because by default the wsl shell already puts you in /mnt/c/users/name and you'd just cd into Download

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