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Tail packing
In computing, tail packing or tail merging is a feature of file systems whereby multiple "tails" of files are "packed" into a single allocation unit (block), in order to conserve space by reducing internal fragmentation. It can be considered a special case of block suballocation where the subblock size is always 1 byte.
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