Limit size of wsl disk

[ppitacaneiro]

¿It is possible to limit the maximum size that WSL disk can take?

I don't know if there's a way to do it, but I haven't found it in the official WSL documentation

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/disk-space

By reading the documentation you have the options to:

• How to check your available disk space
• How to expand the size of your WSL 2 Virtual Hard Disk
• How to repair a VHD mounting error
• How to locate the .vhdx file and disk path for your Linux distribution

I'm using docker desktop with WSL and the disk size went from 1 GB to 20 GB in a matter of hours without building any container

Thank you

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[ppitacaneiro]

/question

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Found '/feature', adding tag 'feature'

[benhillis]

There's actually already an option for this, I've created a PR to add it to the docs:
MicrosoftDocs/WSL#1951