Unexpected watchpack error about /mnt/c/pagefile.sys

[CherryDT]

• Laravel Mix Version: 6.0.49
• Node Version (node -v): 16.14.0
• NPM Version (npm -v): 6.14.15 (old, I know - I have a technical reason for this, but I don't see how it would impact this issue)
• OS: Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL1 on Windows 10 22H2

Description:

When I start mix watch, I get an unexpected error message in the console even though everything works otherwise:

Watchpack Error (stats): Error: EACCES: permission denied, lstat '/mnt/c/pagefile.sys'

This is unexpected because I don't understand why it would even care about files far outside of the project directory, such as the Windows pagefile...

My webpack.mix.js looks like this:

const mix = require('laravel-mix')
require('laravel-mix-svelte')
const path = require('path')

mix.babelConfig({
  sourceType: 'unambiguous'
})

mix
  .webpackConfig({
    resolve: {
      alias: {
        '@assets': path.resolve(__dirname, 'resources/assets'),
        svelte: path.resolve('node_modules', 'svelte')
      },
      extensions: ['.js', '.mjs', '.svelte'],
      conditionNames: ['svelte', 'browser', 'import']
    }
  })
  .copy('resources/assets/img', 'public/img')
  .copy('resources/assets/sounds', 'public/sounds')
  .copy('node_modules/font-awesome/fonts', 'public/fonts')
  .copy('resources/assets/robots.txt', 'public/robots.txt')
  .setPublicPath('public')
  .sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'css')
  .js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'js')
  .svelte({compilerOptions: {customElement: false}})
  .sourceMaps()
  .version()

Steps To Reproduce:

Set up Mix with same settings and run mix watch.