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How to automount an external vhdx file in WSL2
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| 1. Ubuntu WSL2 must be already installed in C: system drive and user should be able to call windows binaries like wsl.exe from bash. | |
| 2. We will install Alpine WSL2 distro in an external partition/disk: | |
| Download an Alpine ZIP file from here: | |
| https://github.com/yuk7/AlpineWSL/releases/ | |
| Extract the files in an external partition/disk. (for example D:\Alpine) | |
| Make sure WSL2 is enabled by default (wsl.exe --set-default-version 2) | |
| Inside the Alpine folder run `winpty Alpine.exe` to install the Distro. An ext4.vhdx file will be created in that same folder. |