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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>slack</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="slab.html" title="slab"/><link rel="next" href="slash.html" title="slash"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">slack</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slab.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slash.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="slack"/><dt xmlns="" id="slack"><b>slack</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Space allocated to a disk file but not actually used to store
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useful information. The techspeak equivalent is ‘internal
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fragmentation’. Antonym: <a href="../H/hole.html"><i class="glossterm">hole</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. In the theology of the <a href="../C/Church-of-the-SubGenius.html"><i class="glossterm">Church of the
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SubGenius</i></a>, a mystical substance or quality that is the
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prerequisite of all human happiness.</p><p>Since Unix files are stored compactly, except for the unavoidable
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wastage in the last block or fragment, it might be said that “<span class="quote">Unix
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has no slack</span>”. See
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<a href="../H/ha-ha-only-serious.html"><i class="glossterm">ha ha only serious</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slab.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slash.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">slab </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> slash</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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