The reason why mke2fs doesn't zap sector 0 is because if someone is installing Linux on the whole disk (i.e., on /dev/sda instead of /dev/sda1), that sector is also the partition label and boot sector. And there isn't a good/portable way to determine whether a device is the whole disk or partition. And it would be a pretty horrible abstraction violation if mke2fs was trying to figure out whether there was something valuable in sector 0, whether it's a grub boot sector, or grub2 boot sector, or a EFI boot sector, or a FAT label....
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