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I've installed the Windows 10 Anniversary Update on my computer.
I would like to know where the /root directory in Bash prompt is within Windows?
I would like to be able to write files in Bash that are accessible from Windows too
i.e.- If I do:
touch /root/foo
Where do I go to access foo in My PC
Patrick
Posted 2016-08-06T02:09:44.203
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I believe this link will answer your question:
In short:
%localappdata%\Lxss\rootfs
or
C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\Lxss\rootfs
kruschk
Posted 2016-08-06T02:09:44.203
Reputation: 300
5rootfs is deceiving. There's nothing in the home dir inside there, it's actually at C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Local\lxss\home\. – mpen – 2016-08-08T17:03:15.857
@mpen as the same for me , this is not true path. – Yusef – 2017-08-26T10:24:41.953
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The folder changed again:
%localappdata%\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs
C:\Users\{Username}\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\rootfs
Ernst Wettstaedt
Posted 2016-08-06T02:09:44.203
Reputation: 111
Please do not post the same answer to multiple questions. If the same information really answers both questions, then one question (usually the newer one) should be closed as a duplicate of the other. You can indicate this by voting to close it as a duplicate or, if you don't have enough reputation for that, raise a flag to indicate that it's a duplicate. Otherwise tailor your answer to this question and don't just paste the same answer in multiple places.
– DavidPostill – 2017-09-15T06:13:41.9501
In my case, running last windows update (creators fall) with ubuntu upgraded, the files are still in C:\Users\Username\AppData\Local\lxss\ but the lxss directory became "invisible". However, just editing the path at the top of the windows explorer manually make it work
Marino Linaje
Posted 2016-08-06T02:09:44.203
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Accessing the WSL file-system from within Windows is not supported. As soon as you do anything more than just reading those files from within the Windows environment, things will go wrong.
But the following part of the question is not impossible and easily supported, so I'll answer this:
I would like to be able to write files in Bash that are accessible from Windows too
You can't (should not) access the Linux filesystem from within Windows, but you can quite easily access the Windows file-system from within WSL. You will find all your fixed lettered Windows NTFS drives mounted under /mnt/*, so your "C-Drive" is mounted on /mnt/c, and so on.
For example your Windows home user path will be something like /mnt/c/Users/<usernamehere>
You can mount some filesystems yourself: MSDN Blog
sudo mkdir /mnt/sdcard
sudo mount -t drvfs U: /mnt/sdcard
Note that the actual filesystem is in this case was exFAT, so you just use drvfs as long as Windows can read the actual file system.
dualed
Posted 2016-08-06T02:09:44.203
Reputation: 309
Did you Google first? – phuclv – 2016-08-06T08:52:33.500
@LưuVĩnhPhúc yes, and all I could find were articles about where the C drive is located inside the Bash script, but nothing the other way around – Patrick – 2016-08-06T20:09:54.693
really? I copied your question into Google and this appears on top
– phuclv – 2016-08-07T14:26:03.007Possible duplicate of How to access linux/Ubuntu files from Windows 10 WSL?
– Bob – 2019-08-28T04:59:22.843(I am suggesting to close as dupe in reverse-chronological order as the other question is both more general and has far better and more up-to-date answers.) – Bob – 2019-08-28T05:00:01.423