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Installing WSL on another drive in Windows

AW A RE on May 09, 2022

The only way to do that is to move the linux distrubition you installed on wsl. I installed Ubuntu on windows as wsl and I showed how to move it st...
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Guto

life saver

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Diwakar dayal

thank you!!

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Kauê Fraga Rodrigues

Kinda useful! 🔥 Thanks for sharing!!!

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Maintain

Thank you for sharing

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Iretioluwa Olawuyi

Thanks very much for sharing. This is super helpful!

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Alexis Creoulo

2 years later still useful. Legend.

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Milinda Barua

if you get a root user after exporting and if you happen to make a user or had a user already before exporting then go to settings and at the profile of the exported linux distro in the command line tab add the line : wsl.exe -d -u . the part till distro name will be same but pass the -u flag with your username and you will get the previous user that was being used

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Ahmed Mohamadeen

Thanks!
I'd like to add a reference to some steps mentioned in the default documentation like setting up a default user, because by default --import always starts the image in the root user.
learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/...

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Dejan

That works fine for me. Thank you a lot.

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Cristiano Raffi Cunha

Thank You! <3

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Marvin

Can I set path on initial install?

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kogordev

Thank you very much.

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Zenit Kovačević

That worked, mostly. The WSL2 distro that I imported can't run GUI application anymore for some reason.

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Luis Otavio Ribas

Thank you !

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Sokhib Tukhtaev

If I want to move my ubuntu distro on wsl from C drive to say, F, does the F drive have to be empty? I have nearly half of it used on my native Windows OS.

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Asad

Can wsl_export be deleted after running the last command?

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GuTheR

No!! Don't do that!

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wheatfox

THANK YOU!!!!

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Alan Ma

Super solution! Thank you @mefaba
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Federico Romeo

Amazing thanks! Just want to point out:

2.0: Go to D:\ and create a directory wsl_export

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shiloh

Great Post!!!

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George Leão

Thanks my friend!!