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Cluster Size

Cluster Size
The smallest amount of space that a file can occupy on a disk.

Storage on a hard or floppy disk is made up of disk sectors, a cluster is a set of one or more adjacent disk sectors. The operating system allocates disk storage by allocating one or more whole clusters, so the space occupied by a file is always an integral multiple of the cluster size.