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Any partition should contain one or more specific kinds of file systems to be used for keeping data. The process of installing a file system is commonly known as formatting. Presently, there is a great variety of file systems can be formatted. 
The program provides the ability to format partitions into the following file systems:
FAT12 & FAT16
FAT32
NTFS
Ext2
Ext3

To format a partition:
Select a hard disk and a partition. 
Click [/body][smallbold]Partitions/smallbold][body] > [/body][smallbold]Format partition[/smallbold][body]. 
Type the label you want in the Partition Label text box. 
Select the file system type to be created on a partition after formatting from the Partition Type drop-down list. (FAT/FAT32, NTFS, EXT2/EXT3) 
Some specific type of partition would be unavailable neither the space of the partition is too small nor too large.
 
Choose the Cluster Size (512 byte,1,2,4бн64KB) from drop-down list. 


[/body][image]../res/tip.png[/image][smallbold]Tips: 

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[image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] Smaller cluster size makes less wasting of disk space. 

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] The smaller cluster size is, the bigger file allocation table (FAT) will be. The bigger the FAT is, the slower the operation system works with the disk.            

[/body][image]../res/mark.png[/image][body] Partition formatting operation destroys all the data on this partition, including files and folders! Take special care when performing this operation.



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