Quick one... 

Hypothetically...is it possible for a filesystem to be a few bytes (or 
several, but not too terribly many...) short of the end of a partition?  
For example, if a partition was 15mb (raw size) and the filesystem was
14.7mb (raw size) would the filesystem remain intact, or would the kernel 
eventually panic due to a filesystem error?

Later...

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