Configuration Options for Mounting Physical Drive(s) or VHDX(s) when WSL Starts

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I'd like to start by saying what an awesome development system/tool WSL is. Thank-you for your efforts.

Feature Request

Currently, WSL provides a CLI command for mounting physical disks, VHDXs, etc. This works perfectly fine. However, there are several use cases where it would be useful to automate the mount command by a setting option in the WSL config file(s). This would offer a clean user experience out of the box.

My primary use case is this: I want to have a turnkey solution to setup a VSCode web server as part of my WSL distro which utilizes an independent (from the Linux distro) drive/VHDX setup to store only my source repos (mounted to home/"user name"/src). I can do this all right now, but not in a turnkey way.

Current Alternatives

Using Windows Task Scheduler to start and mount drives for WSL in my opinion is not a good user experience. WSL can be shutdown at any time making solutions complex.

I know that there are closed issues where this feature has been requested, but I thought that I'd bring it up again as many devs have requested this in one form or another.

Thanks in advance!

The request concerns the WSL CLI and WSL configuration files; no implementation file or test is named. Start by reviewing how WSL starts and how its existing physical-disk and VHDX mounting command works. Done means a configuration option can mount those drives or VHDXs automatically at startup, including the requested source-repository path.

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