title: External HDD on bash on ubuntu on windows
body: <p>How do I access an external hard drive through bash-on-Ubuntu-on-windows. It doesn't seem to appear in either <code>/media</code>, <code>/mnt</code> or <code>/dev</code>, which seem the common places that people say to look for them in Ubuntu systems. </p>
  
  <p>Note: the hard drive is HFS+ formatted: I use Paragon's HFS+ for windows and have already done an <code>apt-get install hfsprogs</code> which I think should allow the Linux part to read the HFS+ format. I have also tried with normal USB sticks, no of which seemed to appear anywhere.</p>
  
  <p>The drive does appear in <code>/cygdrive</code> in cygwin, but when I navigate to cygdrive in bash it doesn't appear. Clearly it is not properly mounted there, but is some form of symbolical link that bash cannot see.</p>
  
  <p>I'm not really sure if this is a Linux or a Windows issue, but there doesn't seem to be anything from Microsoft about it, though I realise it is early days for them. </p>