Formating a disk for LINUX

Well I found a 8.4GB disk on ebay and it arrived 36 hours after bidding for it.

Now I need to prepare it for LINUX. So what do I do.....

The disk was plugged into the 2nd disk cable as primary

/sbin/fdisk /dev/hdc
Command (m for help): n
Command (m for help): p
Partition number (1-4): 1
First cylinder (1-19376, default 1):
Using default value 1
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1-19376, default 19376): +1000000K
Command (m for help): n
Command action
e extended
p primary partition (1-4)
e
Partition number (1-4): 2
First cylinder (1986-19376, default 1986):
Using default value 1986
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1986-19376, default 19376): 16383

NOTE that 16383 is used. That is because this 10GB disk is being used as a 8.4GB disk

Command (m for help): n
Command action
l logical (5 or over)
p primary partition (1-4)
l
First cylinder (1986-16383, default 1986):
Using default value 1986
Last cylinder or +size or +sizeM or +sizeK (1986-16383, default 16383):
Using default value 16383
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hdc: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19376 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdc1 1 1985 1000408+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdc2 1986 16383 7256592 5 Extended
/dev/hdc5 1986 16383 7256560+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: If you have created or modified any DOS 6.xpartitions, please see the fdisk manual page for additionalinformation.
Syncing disks.
[root@andromeda cygnus]#/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdc1
[root@andromeda cygnus]#/sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/hdc1
[root@andromeda cygnus]#/sbin/mkfs.ext2 -c /dev/hdc5
[root@andromeda cygnus]#/sbin/tune2fs -j /dev/hdc1

Added the following line to /etc/fstab

/dev/hdc5 /dolphin ext3 defaults 1 2