Way to mount a partition from the disk the windows is installed.
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Description
**I whish to mount a partition in where my current windows running is installed**
I have a dual boot windows and linux at the same disk, and I'd like to work in wsl mounting the ext4 partition.
Is that possible?
I think there is something related to the issue #5997
I read this [article](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/wsl2-mount-disk) and the note says:
```md
# Note
Administrator access is required to attach a disk to WSL 2.
The WSL 2 mount command does not support mounting a disk (or partitions that belong to the disk) that is currently in use.
wsl --mount always attaches the entire disk even if only a partition is requested.
You can't mount the Windows installation disk.
```
**You can't mount the windows installation disk... **
May is there a work arround ?
As you can see the partition 5 is where my linux is installed.

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Research direction
Read issue #5997 and the linked WSL 2 mount documentation first; no file, test, or entry point is named. Done would require a maintainer-defined answer on whether mounting an ext4 partition from the Windows installation disk is supported or what scoped change is needed.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- linux
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Active
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100