On 2/7/2021 9:40 AM, Cary Lewis via Cygwin wrote:
> Is there a way to access files from a WSL 2 Linux distro from Cygwin?
>>From Windows:
> \\wsl$\Ubuntu is accessible from Windows Explorer, but cygwin does not seem
> to recogonize:
> //wsl\$
> nor does it recognize //HOSTNAME/wsl\$
> but //HOSTNAME/c\$ works.
> Thanks for any help you can provide.
On my system it lives in:
/c/Users/moss/AppData/Local/Packages/CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc/LocalState/rootfs
(Yuck.) There may be (probably is) a link somewhere. //wsl is probably some
"magical" active link.
By searching for ubuntu in the registry I found:
Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss\{d10ee784-05b0-4c00-be54-cba0d7e7a471}
Its key BasePath has to path to that rootfs. I don;t know how stable that hex
package id is, or whether it matters which Linux you've installed, etc. Also,
I am running WSL 1, not WSL 2. I would think that WSL maintains a file
somewhere with the information about distros and where they are, but I am not
sure where that might be.
A StakcOverflow posting said to look in:
C:\Users\"yourusername">\AppData\Local\Packages\"xxxxx"\LocalState\root\fs
The xxxxx varies by specific Linux distro/version.
Naturally I would be careful *writing* anything down there, but I expect
reading would be ok.
HTH -- EM
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