wsl-reclaim
Reclaim WSL2 disk space for real: clean inside the distro, then compact the .vhdx on Windows. Explains why diskpart silently does nothing on sparse disks.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 48%) · 0 views
Niche: disk space cleanup utilities · 196 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- bash
- cli
- disk-space
- docker
- powershell
- vhdx
- +3 more
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Could you build this?
Yes A script that runs fstrim inside WSL2 and PowerShell diskpart / Hyper-V commands to shrink .vhdx virtual disks on the host can be vibe-coded in a couple of hours.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 267 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #124 of 268 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
- wsl-maint · github · 2026-10-17 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- SpaceFree · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- MyDiskHub · ph · 2026-10-29 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- SpaceSharp · github · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DiskDetox · ph · 2026-10-26 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- DiskTriage · hn · 2026-09-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Sata-Cleaner · ph · 2026-10-24 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- partition-magic · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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