WSL Info

Installation Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

• Open Microsoft Store -> Search for Ubuntu

Move a WSL Distro to a non System Drive

• For Details read: https://github.com/docker/for-win/issues/7348

C:\Users\Helmut> wsl --shutdown

C:\Users\Helmut> wsl --export Ubuntu-20.04 D:\WSL\Ubuntu-20.04.tar

C:\Users\Helmut> dir D:\WSL\Ubuntu-20.04.tar
  Verzeichnis von D:\WSL
  19.11.2021  10:11     4.171.202.560 Ubuntu-20.04.tar
               1 Datei(en),  4.171.202.560 Bytes
               0 Verzeichnis(se), 116.880.101.376 Bytes frei

C:\Users\Helmut> wsl --unregister Ubuntu-20.04
                 Registrierung wird aufgehoben…
C:\Users\Helmut>wsl --import Ubuntu-20.04  D:\WSL\Ubuntu-20.04 D:\WSL\Ubuntu-20.04.tar --version 2

Validate Distro:
C:\Users\Helmut\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud SDK> wsl -l -v
  NAME                   STATE           VERSION

  Ubuntu-20.04           Stopped         2
  

Login into Distro:
C:\Users\Helmut> wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04
Welcome to Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.10.60.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2 x86_64)

 * Documentation:  https://help.ubuntu.com
 * Management:     https://landscape.canonical.com
 * Support:        https://ubuntu.com/advantage

  System information as of Fri Nov 19 10:39:14 CET 2021

  System load:  0.0                Processes:             8
  Usage of /:   1.6% of 250.98GB   Users logged in:       0
  Memory usage: 0%                 IPv4 address for eth0: 172.25.83.50
  Swap usage:   0%

root@User-PC:~# pwd
/root
root@User-PC:~# ps -elf
F S UID        PID  PPID  C PRI  NI ADDR SZ WCHAN  STIME TTY          TIME CMD
4 S root         1     0  0  80   0 -   225 -      10:39 ?        00:00:00 /init
5 S root         9     1  0  80   0 -   225 -      10:39 ?        00:00:00 /init
1 S root        10     9  0  80   0 -   225 -      10:39 ?        00:00:00 /init
4 S root        11    10  0  80   0 -  2509 do_wai 10:39 pts/0    00:00:00 -bash
0 R root       110    11  0  80   0 -  2655 -      10:42 pts/0    00:00:00 ps -elf