bradwilson, 16 days ago

Okay, final piece of the puzzle.

If I use a Dev Drive mounted as a drive letter, then use MKLINK /J to make a junction point from my desired local location to the Dev Drive, that's something WSL 2 does understand, and transparently translates that to a symbolic link in Linux terms. So it's really just using Disk Manager to mount it directly into the file system that's the problem.

So I can keep my Dev Drive and get Docker to volume mount things for me again! 🎉

Screen shot showing C:\Dev is now a junction rather than a raw filesystem mount, and Docker in WSL 2 mode does not have any problem mounting it now.