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WSL install vhd size is unexpectedly large

haxvious
By haxvious
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Hey all! I just noticed a while ago that my C drive was getting full. checking wiztree showed me some confusing sizes, attached. As a sanity check, I also ran the df command in my wsl install. That showed me different amounts altogether, also attached. I also have docker desktop, but theres almost nothing on there except for some kubernetes images.

 

Can anyone make sense of this and how to decrease the size of the vhds, or something? If there is anything else you need to know about my system, please lmk. Thanks!

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You can try to open windows terminal as admin, stop wsl with

wsl --shutdown

then run optimize-vhd on the file

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/hyper-v/optimize-vhd?view=windowsserver2022-ps

 

Optimize-VHD -Path .\ext4.vhdx -mode full

 

It might save some, but also not necessarily. 

F@H
Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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Oh, found this:

https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact

F@H
Desktop: i9-13900K, ASUS Z790-E, 64GB DDR5-6000 CL36, RTX3080, 2TB MP600 Pro XT, 2TB SX8200Pro, 2x16TB Ironwolf RAID0, Corsair HX1200, Antec Vortex 360 AIO, Thermaltake Versa H25 TG, Samsung 4K curved 49" TV, 23" secondary, Mountain Everest Max

Mobile SFF rig: i9-9900K, Noctua NH-L9i, Asrock Z390 Phantom ITX-AC, 32GB, GTX1070, 2x1TB SX8200Pro RAID0, 2x5TB 2.5" HDD RAID0, Athena 500W Flex (Noctua fan), Custom 4.7l 3D printed case

 

Asus Zenbook UM325UA, Ryzen 7 5700u, 16GB, 1TB, OLED

 

GPD Win 2

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Thanks for the info! Will check them out when I get home

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