Question: I’m using Ubuntu 16.04 over the Windows 10 Linux subsystem. When I plug in an NTFS external hard drive (D:) I cannot access it over the bash, when I run ls -la /mnt I get the following output:
rwxr-xr-x 1 root ?root ?512 Sep 21 19:04 .drwxr-xr-x 1 root ?root ?512 Jan ?1 ?1970 ..drwxrwxrwx 1
I also tried to mount the drive manually following this solution but the result is the same.The disk is accessible from PowerShell and from the file explorer.
Answer: So I found the problem, I had to unmount it first and the mount it again:
sudo umount /mnt/dsudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d
This happened because it wasn’t the first time I had connected this USB drive. The first time WSL (Windows Linux Subsystem) recognized and mounted the device automatically. But then I unplugged it without “Safe Remove” and without unmounting it through the command line. So, next time I re-connected the disk D: appears to be mounted in /mnt/d but not properly.