On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:32:14 -0800, Darren New wrote:

> 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.

At a guess, corruption. :-)
> 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.

Hmmm, well, the only Windows I have installed is in VMware with virtual 
disks, so I'm unlikely to run across this, I think.

>>  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.

Yep.

Jim

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