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→Formatting the Unallocation Disk Partition
Once the deletion is complete the former Windows Partition will be listed as ''unallocated''. This is now ready for us to use as a Linux partition.
== Formatting the Unallocation Unallocated Disk Partition ==
The next step is to format the partition so that it can be used by Linux. By default Ubuntu Linux using the ext3 filesystem format. This is a powerful filesystem format which supports features such as disk journaling which is useful for restoring damaged data.