How can I move files from the Windows partition to the WSL one?

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How can I move files from the Windows partition to the WSL one?

Burks Tedold 0

I installed Ubuntu through WSL is the Windows virtualisation tool. And I want to move some files from the memory partition is controlled by Windows to the partition is controlled by Ubuntu. I tried to do it through Bash using the

sudo cp <lc_disk>:\\<dir_with_files>\\<file.txt> \\wsl.localhost\\Ubuntu\\home\\<username_for_Ubuntu>\\<target_dir>

command. But the error is raised after running it:

cp: cannot stat <lc_disk>:\\<dir_with_files>\\<file.txt>: No such file or directory.

And I tried to replace \ with / but it didn't help: there is the same error.

How can I move my files?

SysInfo

WSL

WSL version: 2.1.5.0 Kernel version: 5.15.146.1-2 WSLg version: 1.0.60 MSRDC version: 1.2.5105 Direct3D version: 1.611.1-81528511 DXCore version: 10.0.25131.1002-220531-1700.rs-onecore-base2-hyp Windows version: 10.0.22631.3374

Ubuntu

Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy

Burks Tedold 0 Reputation points

2024-04-08T07:48:28.07+00:00
I also want to add.

I tried to replace \\ with / but it didn't help: there is the same error.

I tried to copy files via cmd using the copy command:

copy "A:\Main\IT\Python\python_for_android\test\test.py" "\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\burks_tedold_ubuntu\Test"

but there is the error:

Copy-Item: Access to the path '\\wsl.localhost\Ubuntu\home\<username_for_Ubuntu>\<target_dir>\<file.txt>' is denied.