krimple/wsl.conf

Created December 10, 2018 16:37

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	[automount]
	enabled = true
	root = /mnt/
	options = "metadata,umask=22,fmask=11"
	mountFsTab = false

	[network]
	generateHosts = true
	generateResolvConf = true

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krimple commented Dec 10, 2018

Not having this properly configured wasted two days of my life when setting up a new Windows dev machine.

You must skip the fstab file generated by WSL if you want the permissions to work properly and allow things like yarn and npm to properly access projects on windows volumes.

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