Directory locations when using WSL

Question

I'm new to the Ubuntu world and I need some help. (Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, x64 system type) I created a directory called "Submarine" using this :

mkdir Submarine

I want the directory "Submarine" to be located in "Documents" (as circled in red on

But the directory has been located in a whole other place

By the way, if I type :

cd Documents/

The terminal says that there's no such file or directory

What should I do to create files and directories in the place I want ?

please do not use images and copy the text that is important (ie. the directory you highlighted). That way we can copy/paste it ;) — Rinzwind, Dec 26 '19 at 15:53
Likely a duplicate of several other questions. For starters, check out "How to navigate to C drive in bash on WSL-Ubuntu?", which was already a duplicate of "Can I change directory to a Windows drive in Ubuntu Bash on WSL?". You'll see in those that you can use /mnt/c to access files on the C:\ drive under WSL. — NotTheDr01ds, Jul 19 '21 at 14:30
Note: Also, from looking at the search results, you are using WSL1, which stored its root filesystem in the user AppData. Do not edit files in that path! It can cause corruption. — NotTheDr01ds, Jul 19 '21 at 14:37
Ah, now noticing that this is an old question that got bumped by Community Bot. I recommend closing it as a duplicate, so that it doesn't get surfaced again by Community Bot after a few more years. It's unlikely the OP is going to accept an answer or close it themselves since they haven't been on the site in almost 2 years. — NotTheDr01ds, Jul 19 '21 at 14:38

K7AAY · Answer 1 · 2019-12-26T17:18:47.090

You have Windows Subsystem for Linux which runs Ubuntu, different from a dual-boot installation where you are running either the Windows OS or the Ubuntu OS. WSL stores anything you make into a directory somewhere under your User directory. That's why your directory placed under c:\Utilisateurs\Elève\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.Ubuntu18.04onWindows...

Your Documents folder of Windows actually is c:\Utilisateurs\Elève\Documents .

Specifics on using WSL and creating files and directories are shown in https://superuser.com/questions/1127307/create-folder-from-windows-then-access-from-bash-in-windows-10-wsl

Directory locations when using WSL

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