Consider this scenario:
- A ntfs compressed file fragmented with these properties:
size: 98 758 480 bytes
size on disk: 49 590 272 bytes
- Largest free space block on disk reported by contig.exe (sysinternals) : 91009024 bytes
Trying to defragment the file outputs: defrag aborted. no files were defragmentes.
But running:
contig.exe file
defragments the file in 1 piece.