Windows Subsystem for Linux September 2023 update
devblogs.microsoft.com
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> Sparse VHD – Automatically shrinks the WSL virtual hard disk (VHD) as you use it
Finally. For the first one I would just restart the VM, but the second just consumed my whole drive with no way to get it back. I had to resort to enabling filesystem compression on the vhd file.
I never really paid attention to the size of the VHD, and assumed that I had somehow generated gigabytes of dist and node_modules.