Mar 24, 2018 · PS> Resize-VHD -Path "C:\Container.vhd" -SizeBytes 20GB Error: Resize-VHD : The term 'Resize-VHD' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable …

Nov 30, 2020 · This is required to activate optimize-vhd command. Open windows powershell as admin: First, press Windows+R to open Run, and then type “powershell” in the text box.

Jan 15, 2025 · Unfortunately .vhdx files are always growing. In the past I used to solve this issue by running the following sequence of commands: wsl --manage docker-desktop-data --set-sparse false …

Jan 29, 2024 · 17 You can revert the sparse mode, run the optimize-vhd command, and then set it back to sparse. something along this lines. not sure what's the implication of this, at least it works in my …

Apr 1, 2025 · I use WSL in Windows 11. I dont use Docker Desktop, only docker service in WSL I created a powershell script for reduce VHDX size running the following commands: wsl --shutdown …

Unfortunately .vhdx files are always growing. In the past I used the following commands to compress vhdx files: wsl --manage docker-desktop-data --set-sparse false optimize-vhd -Path C:\Users\<u...

Oct 11, 2019 · compact the VHDX with Optimize-VHD '.\ubuntu 18.04 lts.vhdx' -Mode Full unmount the VHDX with Dismount-VHD '.\ubuntu 18.04 lts.vhdx' It sorta works as the size of the VHDX was …

Jun 9, 2023 · I think this happens because windows allocates some space to the disk image of wsl. Even after clearing deleting the files, the disk space remains occupied as it has been allocated to the …

Aug 21, 2023 · deleted: sha256:somehash ... Total reclaimed space: 0B I've tried several solutions from this question: Docker desktop restart. Does nothing. Shrinking the ext4.vhdx file with diskpart and …

Nov 7, 2022 · I attempted to use Optimize-VHD to reclaim space but none of the provided modes worked. I attempted to use DISKPART to compact the virtual disk, which gave me only ~20MB of …