How to mount a substed drive in windows Ubuntu subsystem

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In the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can mount a substed drive by accessing it through the /mnt directory. WSL automatically mounts Windows drives in the /mnt directory, including those that are substed.

Here's how you can access a substed drive in WSL:

  1. Open the Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell.

  2. Use the subst command to create a drive letter mapping for the desired folder. For example, to create a virtual drive Z: for the folder C:\Users\YourUsername\MyFolder, use the following command:

    mathematica
    subst Z: C:\Users\YourUsername\MyFolder

  3. Open the WSL terminal (e.g., Ubuntu) from the Start menu.

  4. Navigate to the /mnt directory to access the substed drive. For example, to access the Z: drive, use the following command:

    bash
    cd /mnt/z

    Now, you can use the Z: drive as if it were a regular Linux directory in your WSL environment.

Remember that any drive mappings created with subst are specific to the Windows Command Prompt or PowerShell session in which they were created. If you want to access the substed drive in WSL in future sessions, you'll need to recreate the mapping in each WSL session or add the subst command to your startup scripts.