Problem mounting files

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

@hajerkr

I am assuming you meant

docker run --rm -it -v /:/host ubuntu mv /host/home/hajerkr /host/home/hajerkr-backup

Yes, I fixed it in my post too.

@hajerkr

hajerkr@KCL54ML264:~/unity/fw-gears/fw-volumetrics$ docker run --rm -it --privileged --pid host ubuntu nsenter --all -t 1 -- ls -la /home

You can forget this command, it was a mistake to recommend it

I’m also out of ideas know. You could try reporting this on github too

GitHub - docker/for-win: Bug reports for Docker Desktop for Windows

I’m still not sure it is a bug, but I can’t debug it further either. Maybe as a last idea, you could uninstall Docker Desktop, and install it again.

Uninstall

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

If there is a left-over anywhere, I would expect it to be in the docker-desktop-data distribution.

You can access it through the explorer using this UNC path: \\wsl.localhost\docker-desktop-data

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

Based on the list of WSL distros, I don’t think there is a docker-desktop-data distro.

@hajerkr

Bonus output from PS in case needed:

wsl -l -v                                                                                           
NAME              STATE           VERSION                                                                             
* Ubuntu-20.04      Running         2                                                                                     
docker-desktop    Running         2  

I don’t have that either. I knew it was possible to install Docker Desktop without it but never tried to figure out how and this was the first time I saw I had no docker-desktop-data distro.

[meyay (Metin Y.)]

Oh, yes I missed i. Of course, the idea of accessing a non-existing distribution will not work.

Though, where does docker desktop store the data in this case?

[rimelek (Ákos Takács)]

There is a second virtual disk mounted at /mnt/docker-desktop-disk