cluster
<file system> An elementary unit of allocation of a disk made up of one
or more physical blocks.
A file is made up of a whole number of possibly non-contiguous clusters. The
cluster size is a tradeoff between space efficiency (the bigger is the cluster,
the bigger is on the average the wasted space at the end of each file) and the
length of the FAT.
(1996-11-04)
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