WSL2 support for Box Drives

Hi Robert, 

Welcome to the Box Community!

It looks like you are using a OS PC that is not supported by Box Drive.

Kindly take a look at this article to learn more on the system requirements to be able to install and run Box Drive: 

• https://support.box.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043696234-Understand-the-Box-Policy-For-Browser-And-OS-Support 

Thanks for participation in this forum and let us know how else we can help!

Best,

Box is installed and runs perfectly fine on my PC. When exploring the directory through the GUI, or through the Powershell it sees the contents of the Box folder. But the WSL kernel cannot read Box's filesystem natively.

Luckily I was able to find a solution, explicitly mounting it to make it functional. In case anyone else runs into issues.

To save you a click and a fair amount of reading, the solution mentioned above is,

sudo mkdir /mnt/box
sudo mount -t drvfs 'C:\Users\<USER>\Box' /mnt/box

replacing <USER> with your windows userid (or change the path to appropriate box path)

I can't live without bash scripting for many file operations. It's a shame the Box support tech didn't understand the question.

Never mind.

Thank you to both 425722228634 and 1309354617.