From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:00:20 +0100 (CET)
So that existing superblocks on the partition won't
be interpreted as correct by other filesystems. It's
a safety measure many mkfs programs use.
No, we won't do stupid things like that and make an entire
cylinder of our disks unusable. See my other reply.
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