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Syed Zeeshan
Syed Zeeshan

Reputation: 51

How to move Docker data in WSL2 to a different drive

I'm completely new to docker and ddev and I have just started learning things. My main purpose to use Docker & Ddev is to work on my CMS projects. However, I noticed that by default the docker gets installed in C drive (in my case its almost full). Therefore, I want to learn how to create my projects in D drive using DDEV.

For example I would like to have them organized in one single folder like D://Myprojects\Drupalsites\Mysite1 Something like that.

How do I do that?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 6950

Answers (3)

gmavridakis
gmavridakis

Reputation: 406

I used various approaches but none of it really worked except for the below:

1. confirm docker-desktop-data is present
wsl -l -v

2. Shutdown WSL
wsl --shutdown

3. Run below command in single line (added in multiple lines for better reading)
wsl --export 
    docker-desktop-data 
    "new drive tar path e.g. D:\ceres_dwh\Docker_WSL\dockerdesktop.tar" 

4. Unregister desktop-data
wsl --unregister docker-desktop-data

5. confirm docker-desktop-data is not present anymore
wsl -l -v

6. Run below command in single line (added in multiple lines for better reading)
wsl --import 
    docker-desktop-data 
    "new drive wsl path e.g. D:\ceres_dwh\Docker_WSL 
    "new drive tar path e.g. D:\ceres_dwh\Docker_WSL\dockerdesktop.tar" 

7. Reboot..
Reboot PC!

8. confirm docker-desktop-data is present again!
wsl -l -v

Credits to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWBNk2KYg3M

Upvotes: 0

JJ_Coder4Hire
JJ_Coder4Hire

Reputation: 4891

There are command line params when you install docker desktop to move the images for both docker and wsl to another drive.

"./Docker Desktop Installer.exe" install --always-run-service --accept-license --windows-containers-default-data-root=d:\dockerimages

and if you have as well moved your wsl images over to d, then you'll need to add this switch on the installer command above

--wsl-default-data-root=d:\wsl

Upvotes: 0

rfay
rfay

Reputation: 12975

Your problem isn't DDEV and your projects, it's docker using up your space, at at least as far as I understand your question.

So what you're really wanting to do is to move your Docker WSL2 data distro over to the new drive. As far as I know Docker and WSL2 don't provide a simple way to do this, but these two links will tell you how you can do it.

I have not tried this.

One note though: Most people these days are doing the recommended thing and running DDEV inside WSL2 (in /home/<youruser>). But if you already have trouble with disk space with WSL2, you're going to have trouble with that as well. But WSL2 should be your future, see https://ddev.readthedocs.io/en/stable/#installation-or-upgrade-windows-wsl2

Upvotes: 3

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