wslcompact
Compacts the size of the ever-growing WSL vhdx images. (by okibcn)
move-wsl
Easily move your WSL distros VHDX file to a new location. (by pxlrbt)
| wslcompact | move-wsl | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |
| 632 | 1,348 | |
| - | - | |
| 3.1 | 0.0 | |
| 4 months ago | almost 2 years ago | |
| PowerShell | PowerShell | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
wslcompact
Posts with mentions or reviews of wslcompact.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-06.
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WSL2 on Windows 11 - Virtual Disk vhdx is 200GB now , Inside Debian there is hardly few python codes. Is it due to this /mnt (these are windows drives mounted automatically by debian wsl)
The community has also made a utility to get around this issue https://github.com/okibcn/wslcompact
move-wsl
Posts with mentions or reviews of move-wsl.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-23.
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[LTT] This is NOT going Well… Linux Gaming Challenge Pt.2 -
Just means you didn't have to use github-distributed solutions for any of your Windows issues (like, for example, moving wsl to another drive, or backing up/restoring docker volumes (surprise, surprise, windows will happily run .sh files too))
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[Win10] Docker Desktop: How do I change the location where images and containers are stored?
You have to move vhdx image from docker-desktop and docker-desktop-data https://github.com/pxlrbt/move-wsl
What are some alternatives?
When comparing wslcompact and move-wsl you can also consider the following projects:
WSL - Issues found on WSL
wsl-distrod - Distrod is a meta-distro for WSL 2 which installs Ubuntu, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, etc. with systemd in a minute for you. Distrod also has built-in auto-start feature on Windows startup and port forwarding ability.