duster

n 1: an ankle-length loose coat or frock [syn: {gaberdine}, {smock},

{dust coat}]

2: a piece of cloth used for dusting [syn: {dustcloth}, {dustrag}]

3: a pitch thrown deliberately close to the batter

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)