Think of it this way, a guest house with four bedrooms (HDD) that can accommodate four people per room (capacity per cluster) can house a family with eight members (file size) in two rooms with two rooms left for other guests (slack space). If your computer, for instance, stores files in clusters of 4KB each, then a file that is 3KB in size will be stored in one cluster with 1KB of slack space left. Note that hard disks typically keep files in clusters with a specific file size. ![]() Slack space refers to the hard disk space between the end of a stored file to the end of the cluster it is kept in.
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