placeholderMove WSL to Another Drive

Move WSL to Another Drive

Move an installed WSL distribution to another drive by exporting, unregistering, importing, and restoring the default user.

Steps

# List installed WSL distributions$ wsl -l -v  NAME                   STATE           VERSION* docker-desktop-data    Stopped         2  Ubuntu-24.04           Running         2  docker-desktop         Stopped         2  Arch                   Running         2# Export the current distribution$ wsl --export Arch E:\wsl\Arch.tarExport in progress, this may take a few minutes.The operation completed successfully.# Unregister the original distribution$ wsl --unregister ArchUnregistering.The operation completed successfully.# Import it to the new location$ wsl --import Arch e:\wsl\Arch e:\wsl\Arch.tarImport in progress, this may take a few minutes.The operation completed successfully.# Set the default user and start Arch$ Arch config --default-user efterklang$ wsl -d Arch fastfetch                            gjx@Efterklang OS                Arch Linux 20240101.0.204074 x86_64 ├ Kernel         Linux 5.15.146.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 ├󰏖 Packages       190 (pacman) └ Shell          fish 3.7.1󰧨 LM                login (TTY) ├ Terminal       WezTerm 20240203-110809-5046fc22 PC                Windows Subsystem for Linux - Arch ├ CPU            AMD Ryzen 7 5800H (16) @ 3.19 GHz ├󰍛 GPU            NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Laptop GPU (5.87 GiB) [Discrete] ├󰍛 GPU            AMD Radeon(TM) Graphics (1.98 GiB) [Integrated] ├󰋊 Disk           2.09 GiB / 1006.85 GiB (0%) - ext4 ├󰋊 Disk           165.95 GiB / 200.00 GiB (83%) - 9p ├󰋊 Disk           101.74 GiB / 275.69 GiB (37%) - 9p ├󰋊 Disk           166.97 GiB / 475.45 GiB (35%) - 9p ├ Memory         793.43 MiB / 6.71 GiB (12%) ├󰓡 Swap           0 B / 2.00 GiB (0%) ├󰅐 Uptime         7 seconds󰩟 Local IP          113.54.240.64/19󰩟 Public IP         89.116.88.203 (Tokyo, JP)