Managing Linux® Systems with Webmin™ System Administration and Module Development

8.4. Creating a New Filesystem

Before a newly created partition can be used to store files, it must first have a filesystem created on it. Filesystems can also be created on partitions that have been used before, perhaps by another operating system. However, be very careful when formatting a partition with a new filesystem, as any files that it used to contain will be lost forever.

The steps for creating a new filesystem are:

1.	On the main page of the module, click on the number of the partition that you want to reformat. This will take you to the partition editing form, as shown in Figure 8.3. Figure 8.3. The partition editing form.
2.	Near ...