Type Slack Group
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The slack category contains file types that contain left-over data. Many times, software won't allocate and manage data at the byte level. They will allocate and store memory in "pages" of different sizes. Slack space is that region where memory has been allocated but not used. For example, a file system will use 64KB clusters to store files. If a file with a length of 4KB is saved to the file system, 64KB of disk space is used but only the first 4KB of space is actually written to. This leaves 60KB as slack space.
The file types in this category are listed in the [FileTypeID] column of the [FileGroup_FileType] table where the [FileGroupID] is equal to 10020.
Default Types
Truxton puts the following file types into this category by default.
