Fsutil command

Fsutil is a command line utility to configure various file system settings and perform various file related operations.

Configure file system settings

Using ‘Fsutil behavior’ we can configure and query file system settings.  It has 2 subcommands, namely query and set which can be used for these operations.

Below is the syntax for changing file system configuration

fsutil behavior set optionname  value

Below you can find commands for configuring some of the file system settings.

To disable encryption:

fsutil behavior set disableEncryption 1

To enable encryotion:

fsutil behavior set disableEncryption 0

To disable compression:

fsutil behavior set disableCompression 1

To enable compression

fsutil behavior set disableCompression 0

Configure quota settings:

Please see the article Manage user quotas in Windows