Finally, a use for my old 3TB HDD
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Amazing. Just amazing.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
honey the codewitch wrote:
Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Because either the didnt think about it or they thought noone would come with a real use case for it...? :rolleyes:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Because either the didnt think about it or they thought noone would come with a real use case for it...? :rolleyes:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
There's enough of a use case that somebody put together a guide for doing it. And for the many embedded ARM developers out there, it would open up options in terms of actual development platform. This whole thing is just because Microsoft has yet to fully implement (emulate?) block devices in WSL yet.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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There's enough of a use case that somebody put together a guide for doing it. And for the many embedded ARM developers out there, it would open up options in terms of actual development platform. This whole thing is just because Microsoft has yet to fully implement (emulate?) block devices in WSL yet.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
You and your logical arguments... ;P :laugh: :laugh:
M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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You might be able to mount the sd card with a drive letter so it looks like a normal drive?
can't mount drives like that unless they are formatted, FAT32 or NTFS
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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can't mount drives like that unless they are formatted, FAT32 or NTFS
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Try this? [How to Access and Read EXT4 Partition and Data on Windows 11/10 [2024 Updated]](https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/access-ext4-partition.html#:~:text=Go to Tools > Service Management,drive letters in Windows Explorer.)
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Try this? [How to Access and Read EXT4 Partition and Data on Windows 11/10 [2024 Updated]](https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/access-ext4-partition.html#:~:text=Go to Tools > Service Management,drive letters in Windows Explorer.)
I've used apps like those before - including maybe some of those ones in particular. While it's fine for reading an entire non-removable disk, it quickly becomes a chore to have to eject, reload the new disk, add files to it etc. It's not a true mount, it's an app. No shell extensions or anything so it's a big old monkey wrench in the workflow. That's why I ended up exploring other routes - because I have to update this SD card every time I change any code.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I've used apps like those before - including maybe some of those ones in particular. While it's fine for reading an entire non-removable disk, it quickly becomes a chore to have to eject, reload the new disk, add files to it etc. It's not a true mount, it's an app. No shell extensions or anything so it's a big old monkey wrench in the workflow. That's why I ended up exploring other routes - because I have to update this SD card every time I change any code.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Did that on my laptop because I had a spare NVMe stick for it. About ready to nuke GRUB from orbit. Ditching that install. I got WSL doing what I needed it to. It would have done it in the first place, but Microsoft's code is incomplete.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Adding, that was actually worse then some of the other solutions, seeing as how Ubuntu and Win11 refuse to samba together. I need something that's actually going to preserve my workflow, not destroy it.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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Did that on my laptop because I had a spare NVMe stick for it. About ready to nuke GRUB from orbit. Ditching that install. I got WSL doing what I needed it to. It would have done it in the first place, but Microsoft's code is incomplete.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
Nice that you got it working. It can be frustrating when it doesn't work. Just checking, this isn't an option? [EXT4 Windows: Mount EXT4 File System in WSL2 - MiniTool Partition Wizard](https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/ext4-windows.html)
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Nice that you got it working. It can be frustrating when it doesn't work. Just checking, this isn't an option? [EXT4 Windows: Mount EXT4 File System in WSL2 - MiniTool Partition Wizard](https://www.partitionwizard.com/partitionmagic/ext4-windows.html)
Oh you absolutely innocent person. :laugh: Yeah you'd think that would work, wouldn't you. So did I. But Microsoft has not fully implemented block device support in WSL, so it doesn't work for flash drives and SD readers. It's certainly possible if you're willing to shim your SD card over iSCSI and TCP/IP. As nightmarish as that sounds, it's not terrible once it's set up. The trick is getting it set up. Read it and weep: USB-Storage-on-WSL2/README.md at master · jovton/USB-Storage-on-WSL2 · GitHub[^]
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
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I have an HDD disconnected but bolted into my computer chassis. I got rid of it because it slowed things down and I have 6TB of NVMe anyway Turns out, you cannot copy your freshly compiled WSL linux kernel to a filesystem unless it's ext4 It has symbolic links which rules out FAT, and illegal characters in filenames (NTFS). So get this: To enable WSL to see your ext4 formatted SD card you must 1. Have an ext4 partition on non-removable storage, so that WSL can see it. Enter my HDD. 2. Recompile the WSL Linux kernel enabling SCSI over TCP 3. Install the kernel 4. Convince windows to talk SCSI over TCP 5. Wave a dead chicken over the whole thing. Finally, you can mount an SD properly in WSL. Why microsoft didn't enable it by default just floors me.
Check out my IoT graphics library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/gfx And my IoT UI/User Experience library here: https://honeythecodewitch.com/uix
I feel your pain. Wish I could have jumped ship a decade ago and never looked back, but my real job requires me to deal with the OS and company that thinks that new icons and "View more...", "Read more..." links are a useful update.
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I feel your pain. Wish I could have jumped ship a decade ago and never looked back, but my real job requires me to deal with the OS and company that thinks that new icons and "View more...", "Read more..." links are a useful update.
You can rid of that context menu nonsense in Win11 Restore old context menus[^]
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