Moving vhdx of WSL2

The problem

• Your primary drive has low space
• WSL2 is consuming a lot of space

Causes

• The vhdx is a no-shrinking file

Solution

• Move the vhdx to another drive

How

Execute this code i got from here

wsl --shutdown
wsl -l -v
wsl --export <DistroName> <PathToTarArchive>
wsl --unregister <DistroName>
wsl --import <DistroName> <PathToDistroNewDirectory> <PathToTarArchive>
wsl -l -v

Example

Note you have to put the .tar, otherwise the access is denied at the beginning happens.

Additionally clean docker vhdx space

• This space doesn’t show in docker except in the troubleshoot page.
• Press Clean/Purge data