Acronis Disk Director Server 10.0 - User Guide - Manual (Page 23)

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Automatic Partition Operations
4. On the next wizard page, select partition type — Active (Active Primary), Primary or
Logical.
5. Typically Primary is selected to install an operating system to a partition. If the
partition is for data storage, select Logical.
6. Select Active if you want to install an operating system on this partition to boot at
startup.
Note that if you enter a size of more than 2 GB, you will not be able to use the FAT16 file
system on this partition. It will be disabled in the File System wizard page.
Partition type selection window
A hard disk can contain up to four primary partitions. If they already exist, Active and
Primary options will be disabled and you will be able to select only the Logical partition
type.
7. On the next File System wizard page, select a file system. The wizard will offer you
one of the Windows file systems — FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS, — or Linux file systems —
EXT2, EXT3, ReiserFS, Swap — or to leave the partition Unformatted.
More details about the properties of main file systems, the operating systems, and disks
are provided in the A.9 «File System Main Specifications» appendix.