clustered

adj 1: (of plants) growing close together but not in dense mats

2: occurring close together in bunches or clusters [syn: {bunched},

{bunchy}]

3: clustered together but not coherent; "an agglomerated flower

head [syn: {agglomerate}, {agglomerated}, {agglomerative}]

cluster

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)