Tim Cook wrote:
> Norton's defragger, at least, used to have a 'defragment free space' 
> checkbox.  No idea why that wasn't a default setting, or why almost no

Because if you compact all files, and then grow a file at all, you have 
two options: use the free space at the end, or fragment the file.

If you don't want to rewrite the whole file, fragmenting it is (in that 
situation) the easier solution.

-- 
Chambers

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