External drives are not mounted in linux

[joviol]

• Description:
  I have an SD drive always plugged in my laptop. It is properly visible by windows, but I can't see it in the /mnt directory in bash.
  I tried to mount it manually by using fdisk, but when I try to obtain the list of the partitions I get:
  sudo /sbin/fdisk -l
  cannot open /proc/partitions
• Expected results:
  I would expect to see all the drives mounted in windows in the /mnt directory
• Actual results (with terminal output if applicable)
  /mnt only contains the "c" drive
• Your Windows build number
  14393.187
• Steps / All commands required to reproduce the error from a brand new installation
  cd /mnt
  ls

[fpqc]

Known issue. Only fixed NTFS drives are currently mounted. Please close topic, there are at least three others open on this topic.

[aseering]

No need to be brusque; github's search box IMO isn't great... (Though I'd agree that we should set the expectation that people should try anyway.)

Maybe we should make a list of frequently-filed bugs and add a link to it to the default template?

@joviol -- @fpqc is correct that WSL currently only maps NTFS-formatted drives. (I believe it has some other restrictions but as I recall that's the big one.) Is that the case here? If so, could you please follow whichever of #530 , #560 , #801 , #802 , #1073 , #1079 , this UserVoice issue, or this blog post from the MS dev team you think most furthers your concerns?

[fpqc]

@aseering the other requirement is that they be fixed drives. You might be able to get around this by setting mountpoints for your removable drives in, for example, C:\Drivemounts. Do not know, have not tried.

[bitcrazed]

Thanks for your post @joviol, but as pointed out, this is a dupe.