Mount native ext4 partition in WSL2

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Jaume picture Jaume · Nov 13, 2019 · Viewed 12.5k times · Source

I often work on Windows and Linux (on dual boot) and I'm using a ntfs partition to synchronize a data between systems which is something problematic (lots of docker containers have a problem to work with ntfs permissions). I've tried to mount an ext4 partition in wsl1 but it's impossible but I've read that with release of WSL2 it could be achieved. I've tried to do that but have no idea how it can be done. Is there really a way to mount native ext4 in wsl2 to share one partition between linux and wsl2?

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