Installment path

[hualala001 (Lehan Wu)]

My C disk is going to be out of space, I want to install the whole docker things into my E disk. But the installment exe. set the default path to C disk. What should I do to change the installment path?

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

You can find the command line installation method in the documentation

https://docs.docker.com/desktop/setup/install/windows-install/#installation-behavior

• --installation-dir=<path>: Changes the default installation location (C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker)

But the virtual data disk will be bigger than Docker Desktop itself, so don’t forget about the data root either

Data root and disk location

• --hyper-v-default-data-root=<path>: Specifies the default location for the Hyper-V VM disk.
• --windows-containers-default-data-root=<path>: Specifies the default location for the Windows containers.
• --wsl-default-data-root=<path>: Specifies the default location for the WSL distribution disk.

[hualala001 (Lehan Wu)]

Thank you for reply, I have tried this method. However, somehow the installment failed with powershell.

[bluepuma77]

@rimelek

<path>

is a substitute for your path, do not enter <>.