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## vhd4wsl2.md

      
        
          
            
              
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                yefengwu
                / vhd4wsl2.md
            
            
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              August 11, 2024 00:54
                — forked from lseongjoo/vhd4wsl2.md
            
              
                Creating virtual hard disk (VHD) for WSL2
              
          
        
      
        
  
      
    Creating additional virtual hard disk (VHDX) for WSL2 with ext4 filesystem

Lines starting with # mean the commands have to be executed by root user under Linux shell (WSL distro).
All other commands have to be executed under Windows-PowerShell as Administrator.
Make VHDX disk file and mount it under Windows

New-VHD support.vhdx -SizeBytes 25GB -Dynamic -BlockSizeBytes 1MB
Write-Output "\\.\PhysicalDrive$((Mount-VHD -Path support.vhdx -PassThru | Get-Disk).Number)"