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10 Feb 8

Fsutil – The Useful Administrative Tools in Windows

Fsutil is a command-line utility for performing file system related tasks,  such as displaying/managing file or drive properties, dismounting or extending a volume etc. Fsutil is a very powerful tool and is meant to be used by system administrator to perform advance operations. In this post, i will try to share my knowledge on fsutil to perform some simple yet useful tasks.

(*Do learn about what you are doing before executing a command.)

1. Creating a file of a specific size instantly, e.g. 1GB

# fsutil file createnew <filename> <filesize>
fsutil file createnew testfile 1073741824

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