A suite of script and utilities to automate the mounting and unmount of ext4 physical drives in WSL using non-elevated user permissions

• Able to automatically mount \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE{X} to a desired path
• Mounted with normal user permissions (you don't need root)

Create a settings.json next to the python script itself with the following:

• Sudo: the native sudo for Windows 11 or gsudo from https://gerardog.github.io/gsudo/ winget install gsudo (gsudo can cache UAC prompts)
• Distribution: Your distribution of choice wsl.exe -l -v
• User: Your WSL distribution user (normal user, not root)
• Devices: An array of devices to be mounted

• DeviceId - obtained with wmic diskdrive list brief, where its value is the numeric part of \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE{DeviceId}
• Label - is the ext4 partition label to be mounted
• MountPoint - where to mount
• Sentinel - a file on the mounted volume that allows the script to check if the volume is mounted or not

{
	"Sudo": "gsudo",
	"Distribution": "Ubuntu-24.04",
	"User": "ubuntu",
	"Devices": [
		{
			"DeviceId": "1",
			"Label": "Work",
			"MountPoint": "/home/ubuntu/Backup",
			"Sentinel": "Workspace"
		}
	]
}

1. python3 wsl-mount.py -m mount for mounting
2. python3 wsl-mount.py -m unmount for un-mounting