How do you make filesystems in OSX? Mac OSX doesn't have the mkfs command.
How do you make filesystems in mac OSX
osx;mkfs
On BSD-derived Unix systems, newfs is more commonly used than mkfs.Under Mac OS X, you would use newfs_type as the command, where type is one of hfs, msdos, exfat or udf.  There are man pages for all of these.  As the other answer mentions, you can use diskutil to create filestems but by using the newfs variants you can set specific filesystem parameters unavailable via diskutil.