Choose Partitions to Be Formatted

Note

This step is generally ignored for Recommended mode.

Any partitions that have been newly defined must be formatted for use (formatting means creating a file system).

At this time, you may wish to reformat some already existing partitions to erase any data they contain. If you wish to do that, please select those partitions as well.

Please note that it is not necessary to reformat all pre-existing partitions. You must reformat the partitions containing the operating system (such as /, /usr or /var) but you do not have to reformat partitions containing data that you wish to keep (typically /home).

Please be careful when selecting partitions. After formatting, all data on the selected partitions will be deleted and you will not be able to recover it.

Click on Next -> when you are ready to format the partitions.

Click on <- Previous if you want to choose another partition for your new Mandrake Linux operating system installation.

Click on Advanced if you wish to select partitions that will be checked for bad blocks on the disk.