Following the advice on How do I get back unused disk space from Ubuntu on WSL2? I set my WSL disk image to sparse with wsl --manage <distro> --set-sparse true
. But the ext4.vhd file is still very large (~70 GB) while running du
inside WSL reports only about 10 GB.
Will the disk size be reduced dynamically as I use my C:/ drive or do I have to manually reduce it? If I can, I'd like to force update the now sparse disk so that I know how much free space I actually have left on my drive.