# extent

> variable-sized, contiguous area of storage that some filesystems use as a unit of disk space allocation

**Wikidata**: [Q389408](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q389408)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extent_(file_systems))  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/extent


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013