Format hard drive or create a "volume" ????

put in a new hard drive, tried to format it and i ended up creating a "volume" which is formated and has my OS installed on it now. is that fine or could i have done something to format the entire drive? is it worth doing over? i haven't restored all my files yet so the time lost wouldn't be a big deal....

Yeah, that's how it works. It creates volumes ("partitions" in the Windows world) and formats them. You're right in that your main volume doesn't take up the entire drive, there is at least one small hidden volume that the system uses exclusively.
All operating systems work in same way. It's normal.
Your drive is as set up as it's going to get.

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