That is... if I start with a blank drive, a drive made completely of 0x00s, and then do mkfs.ext4, what does the drive, now embossed with ext4, look like? I mean, what I wanted to see, is what it takes to transmogrify a bunch 0x00s, from "nothing" into the purposeful assemblage of bytes that is an ext4 filesystem. At first I figured I’d try visualizing a live drive, like /dev/sda... but quickly fi