Can be called as "free space" namely a space on hard drive that not / has not been contains data and available to be contained data
Slack Space
Slack space is portion of a hard drive that are not fully used by the file and maybe contained data from file that deleted before.
In picture above, in the color area is a file that in length 2700 bytes . Because the file system cannot give the file half a cluster, it has allocated two full clusters to the file, for a total of 4096 bytes, even though the file is much smaller than that. This means that eight sectors have been given to the file; sectors 1-5 have been used fully, sector 6 has been used partially, and sectors 7 and 8 not used by the file at all. This means that part of sector 6 and all of sectors 7 and 8 are slack space.
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