formatting external harddisk

[Philippe Landau]

hello

i bought an external usb harddisk today,
found no GUI formatting tool (is there one ?),
tried formatting via CLI:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-July/msg03314.html
made one primary partition occupying the full space
using t=b for fat32, rebooted, copied 700 MB onto it,
then had only some 300 MB space left of the 200 GB total,
deleted the file with 700 MB, emptied the trash,
but had still only around 300 MB left.
so i thought ok, once again i'm too stupid for the command line.

i have another external hard disk formated with HFS+ by OS-X
that ubuntu can't read, so i wanted to copy those files
to the new hard-disk. so i went to a friend with a Mac OS X,
connected the new hard-drive and formatted it as UFS,
copied the old files over, went home,
plug the new harddisk with the Unix File System,
ubuntu opens a window with "/media/Boot OSX"
and only two files as content:
/media/Boot OSX/Volume Name Icon
/media/Boot OSX/BootX
a day lost trying to port some data to linux.

how could this be done right ?
and is there a way to see the data on that UFS partition ?

kind regards     philippe