Did you try Googling for "XFS partition"?

I found a lot of info that way.

I have never used anything other than ext2, ext3, and reiserfs, so I'm
afraid I can't help with XFS.

I most certainly can't help with "change some of the drive properties
by right-clicking on
the icon", as I do all of this sort of low level stuff from the
command line. Tried and true. Not that it's the only way, it's just
the way I've been doing low level stuff since before Linux existed...

BTW, check out http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -you
might find a way to trigger more responses. Please don't take this
suggestion in the wrong way, years ago I learned a lot myself from a
precursor to this document.