You'll find the Windows C:\
structure at /mnt/c/
in the Bash environment.
Therefore, my Documents folder is at /mnt/c/Users/Ben/Documents/
.
why does mnt not show up with ls -a? – Sergei Wallace Apr 16 '16 at 17:52
You were in the ~
directory, your home in the Bash environment, which is not the root (/
). If you had done cd /
first, you would have seen mnt
. – Ben N Apr 16 '16 at 18:01