WSL --unregister should not delete if system was imported in-place
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Description
**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
If a user uses --import-in-place, then the usage itself would be indicative of the user managing the lifetime of the root filesystem outside of WSL built-in management semantics; as such, WSL should not delete the root filesystem when doing "--unregister"
**Describe the solution you'd like**
One of two options:
A) Unregister should not delete user data when image was created with "import-in-place"
B) Unregister should never delete user data. There should be an --unregister and --delete command. Similar to this https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9932 - but I think we should just have two options [--unregister] and [--delete]
**Describe alternatives you've considered**
The workaround is somewhat simple to just --terminate + copy the image somewhere else, then do unregister, but it's ugly.
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by tracing the --import-in-place and --unregister command paths in WSL and reviewing how unregister currently handles the root filesystem. Compare the proposed preservation and separate deletion behaviors, then verify that imported-in-place user data remains available after unregister and that any explicit deletion behavior is unambiguous.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100