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We cannot use the C disk for some of our clients so I'd like to change the locations Rancher Desktop is using to another disk. For instance "D:\rancher-desktop-vmdata" The folder with the most impact is "AppData\Local\rancher-desktop". How can I do this? Preferably without Symlinking. I already looked at the issues below: |
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I don't have access to my Windows machine right now, so this is untested, but I expect it to work. Rancher Desktop is using 2 WSL distros, Make sure you quit Rancher Desktop before trying to move the data. Note that the wsl --shutdown
wsl --export rancher-desktop-data rancher-desktop-data.tar
wsl --unregister rancher-desktop-data
wsl --import rancher-desktop-data D:\rancher-desktop-vmdata rancher-desktop-data.tar --version 2 You can move the Once you have verified that everything works, you can delete the Note that doing a "factory reset" will delete both distros, so they will be recreated in their default locations, and you would have to move them again manually. And please report back here if this actually worked! 😄 |
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I don't have access to my Windows machine right now, so this is untested, but I expect it to work.
Rancher Desktop is using 2 WSL distros,
rancher-desktop
andrancher-desktop-data
. The first one includes the software and is basically fixed size. The second one includes all the container images you build or pull from repositories, and can grow quite significantly.Make sure you quit Rancher Desktop before trying to move the data. Note that the
rancher-desktop-data.tar
file will be quite large too, so put it on a disk with sufficient free space: