Is usb supported on Bash on Ubuntu on Windows 10?

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bcan picture bcan · Aug 15, 2016 · Viewed 47.7k times · Source
  • I have no files or paths about usb on dev/
  • When I plug in a flash disk, nothing appears on dev/ or mnt/ or media/ about it.

  • sudo lsusb returns: 

    unable to initialize libusb: -99

What should i do to enable usb access on bash?

Answer

user643011 picture user643011 · May 16, 2017

Good news, it is now possible to mount USB media (including FAT formated) and network shares with drvfs on Windows 10:

Mount removable media: (e.g. D:)

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

To safely unmount

$ sudo umount /mnt/d

You can also mount network shares without smbfs:

$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

You need at least Build 16176 so you might have to opt-in to the Windows Insider programm and then update Windows. Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/

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