How to navigate to C drive in bash on WSL-Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I've installed bash on Ubuntu on Windows feature on Windows 10 and I want to change directory this path on my C:\ drive:
C:/wamp64/www What should I do ?
11 Answer
C:\ in Windows is /mnt/c/ in WSL Ubuntu
In Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) The C:\ drive is mounted as /mnt/c/, D:\ is mounted as /mnt/d/ et cetra. Therefore, C:/wamp64/www should be at /mnt/c/wamp64/www. Try:
cd /mnt/c/wamp64/wwwin the Ubuntu terminal to go to that folder. Note, the first / before mnt and remember that in Ubuntu file and folder names are case sensitive. So wamp64, WAMP64, wAmP64, and WaMp64 are 4 different folders! See for a bit more on using case sensitive file names in WSL.
Background on /mnt
Windows users not familiar with Ubuntu (Linux in general) may wonder:
What does /mnt stand for?
In Linux almost everything is a file or a folder. /mnt is a folder, /mnt/c is a folder called c inside the folder /mnt.
In Linux partitions (Windows calls them "drives" to confuse us) are mounted in folders generally called "mount points". So in WSL, the "C Drive" is mounted in the c folder inside /mnt folder. /mntis a folder within which other folders are created for the purpose of mounting various partitions. See the link related to mnt below.
References:
On mnt
Hope this helps
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