HOW-TO: Backup or Move WSL2 Distro
Move WSL to another drive
- Install LxRunOffline via Choco
choco install lxrunoffline
- lxrunoffline list List all the installed distros on your system. I get output like this.
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.207]
(c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
D:\work>lxrunoffline list
Ubuntu-18.04
docker-desktop
docker-desktop-data
D:\work>
1 lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-18.04 -d G:\wsl\ .
- Move your distro to another drive. My distro name here is Ubuntu. I am moving it to M: drive and /Shared/WSL2 folder inside it. It would take some time to finish moving.
- You can use the same move command to move your distro from default location to a different location inside C Drive.