--mount support for USB flash drive
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
Not able to mount USB flash drive in wsl. It fails to attach to WSL 2. Same issue for NTFS, FAT and exFAT.
**Describe the solution you'd like**
USB flash drive should be able to mount using wsl --mount command and allow to access from /dev/sdb
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
NA
**Additional context**
Windows 11 Home
Version 22H2 OS build 22621.819
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Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the USB flash-drive failure through WSL 2's `wsl --mount` path and compare NTFS, FAT, and exFAT behavior; done means the drive can be attached and accessed as `/dev/sdb`.
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Assessment
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100