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If you have a small drive on C and would like to move your WSL distro you can do it using the LxRunOffline tool.

  • Install LxRunOffline (msvc)
  • List your installed distros with LxRunOffline list command:
PS C:\> LxRunOffline list
docker-desktop-data
Ubuntu
docker-desktop
  • To move the Ubuntu distro use LxRunOffline move -n Ubuntu -d X:\wsl\Ubuntu\. On C it is located in C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Packages\CanonicalGroupLimited.UbuntuonWindows_79rhkp1fndgsc\LocalState\ext4.vhdx

I have also moved the docker-dekstop and docker-dekstop-data without any issue so far.

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