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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)