This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Gabriel Tavares
Introduction
I'm writing this post to help when I forget how to do this or if someone else needs a little help with this kinda of issue.
Motivation
I use more than one SSD. My main SSD was being filled with my development files from WSL and Docker. So I wanted find a way to move this data to another disk. Testing and searching I found a way to do so.
Getting Things Done
First of all you need to check if your WSL is running:
wsl -l -v
You might get something like this:
NAME STATE VERSION
* Ubuntu Running 2
docker-desktop-data Running 2
docker-desktop Running 2
if STATE is Running you have to shutdown WSL:
wsl --shutdown
Now we will export the WSL data to another place:
wsl --export docker-desktop-data "<your-new-wsl-data-location>\docker-desktop-data.tar"
Exporting data maybe will take a while. When finished, we need to unregister the distro by using this command:
wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data
WARNING: your ext4.vhdx data will be removed as well from the original file destination.
wsl --import docker-desktop-data "<new-data-location-folder>" "<new-data-location-folder>\docker-desktop-data.tar" --version 2
WARNING: you see we put a flag --version 2, this is the version of WSL distro.
Conclusion
You can delete ONLY the <your_docker_path>\wsl\data\docker-desktop-data.tar file. Don't delete others files the might be in the folder!
Thanks for read until right here and I hope this help.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Gabriel Tavares
Gabriel Tavares | Sciencx (2024-09-01T23:03:19+00:00) Change WSL/Docker files to another disk. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2024/09/01/change-wsl-docker-files-to-another-disk/
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