Accessing removable media in Bash on Windows

Is there a way to access removable media (e.g. thumb drives or SD cards) from within Bash on Windows?

Bash on Windows uses DriveFs to mount fixed drives in the /mnt folder, but it doesn't automatically mount removable media. And it doesn't look like it puts them in /dev either:

Aaron@MYPC:/$ ls /dev
block  fd  kmsg  lxss  null  ptmx  pts  random  shm  stderr  stdin  stdout  tty  tty0  tty1  urandom  zero

Is there a way to mount removable drives? Is there a way to access the underlying block device?

Answer

Good news, it is now possible to mount USB media (including formatted as FAT) and network shares with drvfs on Windows 10:

Mount removable media: (e.g. D:)

$ sudo mkdir /mnt/d
$ sudo mount -t drvfs D: /mnt/d

To safely unmount

$ sudo umount /mnt/d

You can also mount network shares without smbfs:

$ sudo mount -t drvfs '\\server\share' /mnt/share

You need at least Build 16176 so you might have to opt-in to the Windows Insider programm and then update Windows. Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/wsl/2017/04/18/file-system-improvements-to-the-windows-subsystem-for-linux/