wslcompact
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okibcn
Compacts the size of the ever-growing WSL vhdx images.
Greetings, I have started using a shared VHDX file for my projects across WSL distro's. Using: wsl.exe --mount --vhd D:/WSL/wsl2-shared.vhdx --name wsl2-shared before starting wsl distro's. Is it possible to...
How much space does wslcompact need to work its magic? 0MB required but I have 194GB free space available. > Current size: 317966 MB > Estimated size: 270379 +/- 6595...
compacting was successful but wsl became corrupted, cant start it anymore tried to mount manually but every attempt failed. be careful before running this thing.
Problem with the final copy commands: ``` Move-Item: An object at the specified path C:\Users\RD2A7~1.FIN does not exist. Get-Item: Cannot find path 'C:\Users\RD2A7~1.FIN\AppData\Local\Temp\wslcompact\Ubuntu.vhdx' because it does not exist. ``` Full...
Running the -c command on a basic Ubuntu image gives the following error: ``` U:\>wslcompact -c Ubuntu WslCompact v8.7 2023.03.01 (C) 2023 Oscar Lopez wslcompact -h for help. For more...
Hey, I wanted to compress my wsl distro, but it shows me that the estimated size is going to be way larger than the current size:  Does anyone has...
I think this is related to the approach to pipe the export to import: https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact/blob/b9eee55425820f18d6d48c367f9d1d9e5826efa7/WslCompact/WslCompact.psm1#L95-L97 I've seen this use over 8GB (roughly size of image) in memory, which if there...
