community.windows.win_format module – Formats an existing volume or a new volume on an existing partition on Windows

Note

This module is part of the community.windows collection (version 1.11.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.windows.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.windows.win_format.

Synopsis

Parameters

Parameter

Comments

allocation_unit_size

integer

Specifies the cluster size to use when formatting the volume.

If no cluster size is specified when you format a partition, defaults are selected based on the size of the partition.

This value must be a multiple of the physical sector size of the disk.

compress

boolean

Enable compression on the resulting NTFS volume.

NTFS compression is not supported where allocation_unit_size is more than 4096.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

drive_letter

string

Used to specify the drive letter of the volume to be formatted.

file_system

string

Used to specify the file system to be used when formatting the target volume.

Choices:

  • "ntfs"

  • "refs"

  • "exfat"

  • "fat32"

  • "fat"

force

boolean

Specify if formatting should be forced for volumes that are not created from new partitions or if the source and target file system are different.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

full

boolean

A full format writes to every sector of the disk, takes much longer to perform than the default (quick) format, and is not recommended on storage that is thinly provisioned.

Specify true for full format.

Choices:

  • false ← (default)

  • true

integrity_streams

boolean

Enable integrity streams on the resulting ReFS volume.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

label

string

Used to specify the label of the volume to be formatted.

large_frs

boolean

Specifies that large File Record System (FRS) should be used.

Choices:

  • false

  • true

new_label

string

Used to specify the new file system label of the formatted volume.

path

string

Used to specify the path to the volume to be formatted.

Notes

Note

See Also

See also

community.windows.win_disk_facts

Show the attached disks and disk information of the target host.

community.windows.win_partition

Creates, changes and removes partitions on Windows Server.

Examples

- name: Create a partition with drive letter D and size 5 GiB
  community.windows.win_partition:
    drive_letter: D
    partition_size: 5 GiB
    disk_number: 1

- name: Full format the newly created partition as NTFS and label it
  community.windows.win_format:
    drive_letter: D
    file_system: NTFS
    new_label: Formatted
    full: True

Authors

  • Varun Chopra (@chopraaa)