Move/Install WSl distro from C drive to another drive

I have a small 128GB SSD. I run out of space when I install ReactNative related dev tools. So I wanted to find a way to install/move my existing distro to different location than C drive.

Move WSL to another drive

• Install LxRunOffline tool. choco install lxrunoffline

• lxrunoffline list List all the installed distros on your system. I get output like this.

  Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.19041.207]
  (c) 2020 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
  D:\work>lxrunoffline list
  Ubuntu-18.04
  docker-desktop
  docker-desktop-data
  D:\work>

• lxrunoffline move -n Ubuntu-18.04 -d G:\wsl\ . Move your distro to another drive. My distro name here is Ubuntu-18.04. I am moving it to G drive and wsl folder inside it. It would take some time to finish moving.

You can use the same move command to move your distro from default location to a different location inside C Drive.