Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:38:07 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> 
>> Open the file, write a little bit, close it. Open it again, append a
>> little, close it. Repeat.  Possibly it requires other people to also
>> have the file open at the same time, as for reading or something?
> 
> Don't think so.

I don't know. All I can say is that I've seen files with 2K length 
spread over half a dozen blocks as reported by defrag. :-)  I'm not sure 
what causes it.

Try running the defrag GUI version, look at the report, and see if 
things like your registry hives or event logs are fragmented and how 
much. In my expereince, it's not uncommon.

>  Sparse files I could see, but a proper sparse file 
> wouldn't shrink during a defrag, either, based on my own experiences, 
> because the "empty" space is as important as the real data is to the 
> application.

Yah. Sparse files are already deallocated, so you can't really 
deallocate more.

-- 
   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     Remember the good old days, when we
     used to complain about cryptography
     being export-restricted?

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