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Windows home doesn't give you the easy commands to steal space back from an expanding wsl volume, here's how you do that.
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compress_docker_vdisk.txt
wsl --shutdown
diskpart
select vdisk file="C:\Users\USER\AppData\Local\Docker\wsl\data\ext4.vhdx"
attach vdisk readonly
compact vdisk
detach vdisk
exit
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