Transfer data between different WSL instances

Easily transfer data between Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) distros installed on a single machine.

The easiest method for transferring data is to create a new directory that sits outside of any distro, but is accessible to all:

mkdir /mnt/wsl/share

From that location, data can be shared between your installed distros.

Beware: The shared directory’s filesystem lives in memory. If you run the wsl.exe --shutdown command in Powershell, all of the data in /mnt/wsl/share will be lost, so only use this method as a temporary repository to facilitate data transfer.

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