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.
Details
- External ID
- 1362219257
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- wsl-reclaim
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Sept. 9, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.5194722008711248
- Tags
- bash, cli, disk-space, docker, powershell, vhdx, windows, wsl, wsl2
- Fetched at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 13, 2026, 5:57 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- system maintenance and file utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- disk space cleanup utility for wsl2
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 77 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #36 of 78 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 279 days after the earliest competitor.
- SpaceFree · ph · 2026-09-21 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- SpaceSharp · github · 2026-09-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- DiskTriage · hn · 2026-09-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Photos Recovery · ph · 2026-09-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- SpaceSharp · ph · 2026-09-26 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NSL · hn · 2026-09-29 · 148 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Systweak · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- DiskCode · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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