Tools/Format

Description

Tool for formatting partitions created on hard disk, USB storage, etc.

Select the device to be formatted from the list on the left.
Enter the label, which will be the volume name of the partition.
Check the filesystem dependant options. Check the note below.
Click the "Quick Format..." button. In practise all modern devices should be formatted only with that option.

Also accessible though Ambient RMB > Utilities > Format.
About the Recycled option with SFS:
- SFS is the default filesystem on MorphOS. It can have a special directory which contains recently deleted files. The directory is named as .recycled and it resides at the root level of every SFS partition (SYS:.recycled for example). Depending the format options it may be disabled, hidden but accessible, or visible.
- If it's hidden, you can't see it even with "View All Files" option, but you can access it from the shell or Ambient (for example by pressing / key and then writing it to the path string after the volume name).
- You shouldn't modify any files in it, but you can recover deleted files by copying them to some other path.
- The directory is purged automatically when needed.