diff --git a/src/home/homework-mount.c b/src/home/homework-mount.c
index 82b461a9873..d73a908f1cf 100644
--- a/src/home/homework-mount.c
+++ b/src/home/homework-mount.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static const char *mount_options_for_fstype(const char *fstype) {
         if (streq(fstype, "xfs"))
                 return "noquota";
         if (streq(fstype, "btrfs"))
-                return "noacl";
+                return "noacl,compress=zstd:1";
         return NULL;
 }