The format drive action allows you to format a local drive.
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The disk to be formatted. The disk can be specified by its mount point, volume name or drive letter.
The volume label of the disk.
The file system which the disk will be formatted as. Possible file systems are Fat, Fat32 and NTFS.
Performs a quick format of the disk by not checking for bad sectors.
All files created on the disk will be compressed by default. This option is only available when the file system is NTFS.