• Shrink your distro
• Move your distro to another drive or path
• Restore your distro from a vhdx file

Download the latest release from the releases page.

If you only want to execute the wsl-manager, you can download the wsl-manager.zip file, extract it and run the wsl-manager.exe file.

If you want to build the project yourself, you will need clone the repository and install the dependencies. Here is the commands you need to run:

poetry install
poetry shell

After that, you can run the build script to build the project:

poe build

When you run the wsl-manager.exe file, you will see the following menu. Here you can choose between shrink and move options.

When selecting the shrink option, you will select the distro you want to shrink. After that, you will see the script that will be executed. If you want to continue, just press any key. As you can see in the image below.

When selecting the move option, you will select the distro you want to move. After that, you will need to select the strategy that you want to use. You can choose between tar file and windows registry. As you can see in the image below.

Warning

The tar file strategy uses official wsl commands and was used by a lot of people. Nevertheless some people had weird issues that resulted in broken WSL disks. Make sure you have a backup of your data, so you can restore in case of an error.

When selecting the restore option, you will select the vhdx file of the distro you want to restore. After that, you will input the name of the distro and others information.

This project follows the MIT license.

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for details the process for submitting pull requests to us.