Yep. I chose 32K unused space in the prototype filesystem I wrote [1,
2.4 era]. I'm pretty sure I got that number from some other filesystem,
maybe even some NTFS incarnation. It's just good practice to avoid the
first and last "chunks" of a partition, FSVO chunk.
Jeff
[1] http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/jgarzik/ibu/
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