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Be careful not to enter a value higher than you actually want as the process of reducing a virtual disk size is much more complicated.Įnter the value for the new maximum size you want to allocate to this Linux distribution using the Windows Command Prompt DISKPART> prompt: expand vdisk maximum=

For example, to double the virtual size of 512 GB to 1024 GB, you would convert to MB and enter the value: 1024000. The new value you enter must be greater than this original value. For example, if Virtual size: 512 GB, convert this to 512000. You will need to convert the Virtual size to megabytes. Select vdisk file=''ĭisplay the details associated with this virtual disk, including the Virtual size, representing the current maximum size the VHD is allocated: detail vdisk Enter the following command, replacing with the directory path to the ext4.vhdx file associated with the Linux distribution (copied in step #2). Open Windows Command Prompt with admin privileges and then open the diskpart command interpreter by entering: diskpart

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For help, see How to locate the vhdx file and disk path for your Linux distribution. Terminate all WSL instances using the command: wsl.exe -shutdownĬopy the directory path to the ext4.vhdx file associated with the Linux distribution installed on your machine. (For earlier WSL releases that have not yet been updated, this max default may be set to 512GB or 256GB). To expand the VHD size for a Linux distribution beyond the default 1TB maximum amount of allocated disk space, follow the steps below. How to expand the size of your WSL 2 Virtual Hard Disk The amount of disk space allocated to your VHD by WSL will always show the default maximum amount (1TB in the most recent version of WSL), even if the amount of disk space on your actual Windows device is less than that. WSL mounts a VHD that will expand in size as you use it, so your Linux distribution sees that it can grow to the allocated maximum size of 1TB. If you see that you are near to reaching the available amount of disk space allocated to your VHD, or have already received an error due to no disk space remaining, see the next section for steps on how to expand the maximum amount of disk space allocated to the VHD associated with your Linux distribution. Mounted on: Directory path where the disk is mounted.Use%: Percentage of disk space remaining (Used / Allocated size).Avail: Amount of space left in the VHD (Allocated size minus amount used).Used: Amount of space currently being used in the VHD.

Size: Total size of the disk (the maximum amount of space allocated to the VHD).Filesystem: Identifier for the VHD file system.

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If this command does not work for you please upgrade to the Store version of WSL using the wsl -update command, or try wsl df -h /. To check available disk space, open a PowerShell command line and enter this command (replacing with the actual distribution name): wsl.exe -system -d df -h /mnt/wslg/distro How to check your available disk spaceĬheck the amount of disk space available in the VHD for a Linux distribution installed with WSL 2 by using the Linux Df command. To fix this error, follow the guidance below on How to expand the size of your WSL 2 Virtual Hard Disk. If the storage space required by your Linux files exceeds this maximum size, you will see errors stating that you've run out of disk space. By default each VHD file used by WSL 2 is initially allocated a 1TB maximum amount of disk space (prior to WSL release 0.58.0 this default was set to a 512GB max and 256GB max prior to that). WSL 2 automatically resizes these VHD files to meet storage needs. These VHDs use the ext4 file system type and are represented on your Windows hard drive as an ext4.vhdx file.

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Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2) uses a virtualization platform to install Linux distributions alongside the host Windows operating system, creating a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) to store files for each of the Linux distributions that you install. vhdx file and disk path for any installed Linux distributions

How to repair the VHD if an error occurs.

How to check the amount of disk space available in the VHD.

This guide covers how to manage the disk space used by Linux distributions installed using WSL 2, including: