This will begin the process of formatting the drive. My SSD was accessible at dev/sdc and had a single dev/sdc1 partition. Note that you'll need to re-mount it again before continuing. And re-running the command above to see which drive disappeared. If you're not sure which device/partition is which, you can always unmount the SSD by running wsl -unmount in an elevated PowerShell prompt. You should see your newly mounted SSD appear here. This will list all drives and partitions accessible to WSL. In the WSL terminal, run the following commands: sudo fdisk -l You can exit this terminal at any time by typing exit. My SSD had a DeviceID of \\.\PHYSICALDRIVE3. This lists the available drives in Windows. Open an elevated ("As Administrator") PowerShell prompt and run the following commands: wmic diskdrive list brief I followed Microsoft's official documentation and selected Ubuntu as my distribution of choice. All in all, I went from not having the WSL installed to having a new SSD working with Dashcam/Sentry Mode in under 15 minutes with no third-party tools required! Here's how: I couldn't help but think that this sounded like a perfect job for the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). After doing a bit more digging, I found some other folks saying that formatting the drive as ext4 (a Linux-only filesystem format) also worked.
While researching, I found a number of folks saying that if I was using Windows, I'd need to download a third-party utility to format the drive as FAT32 since Windows 10 only supports FAT32 partition sizes up to 32GB.
After doing some research on the best removable storage device to use, I settled on the Samsung T5 SSD. I recently wanted to set up the Dashcam/Sentry Mode in my new Model Y. Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux to create an ext4 partition for Tesla's Dashcam/Sentry Mode