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Discussion on: Install Fedora 37 or earlier on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)

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Naufan Rusyda Faikar • Edited

I don't know why when I installed Fedora this way, I'm able to write into Windows NTFS (C:/) although it's so slow. But when I installed Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store, I couldn't. Can you give me some insight? Thanks in advance. I found this article very helpful!

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Naufan Rusyda Faikar • Edited

Sorry if I am bothering you. I have no idea why. But after running wsl -t ubuntu then wsl -d ubuntu, now it works. The only thing is it's so slow. Should I move my project folder into WSL ext4 hard disk image file? Or should I just format my D:/ to ext4? What is your advice? Thanks.

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Jonathan Bowman

So, especially in WSL 2, Windows disk performance is very, very poor. Try doing your work in the Linux filesystem (in your home directory, for instance) instead. Is that faster?

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Naufan Rusyda Faikar

Yes, indeed, it is much faster.

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Naufan Rusyda Faikar

Sorry, but I couldn't find wsl.conf anywhere. Where should it be?

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Jonathan Bowman

My apologies; I wasn't thinking and gave you wrong advice about the [interop] section. That doesn't have anything to do with mounting Windows drives from WSL.