Wiping or Formatting a USB Disk from WSL 2

This draft shows how I used WSL 2 to attach a physical Windows disk, inspect it from Linux, wipe it with shred, and cleanly unmount it afterward.

March 6, 2024 · 3 min · 610 words · Neil Borromeo

Compacting a WSL 2 `ext4.vhdx` Disk

This draft captures the practical sequence for terminating a WSL 2 distribution and compacting its backing ext4.vhdx file through diskpart.

February 9, 2024 · 1 min · 201 words · Neil Borromeo