How to format a new hard drive?

[Patrick Smith]

Clinton MacDonald wrote:
> BendAR wrote:
>> how can I format a hard drive in Yellow Dog Linux? I don't find the 
>> formattools. Please give me hint.
> 
> Look up the man pages for "mkfs," "fdisk," and "pdisk." My limited 
> understanding is that you must first "build the filesystem" (what we 
> usually think of as formatting the disk) using mkfs, then set up the 
> individual partitions using pdisk (the version of fdisk that understands 
> Mac partition tables).

It's the other way around... first create partitions, then create 
filesystems.  Each filesystem "lives" on one partition.