Question

What is the purpose of disk fragmentation

Answer 1

Disk Defragmenter is a utility inMicrosoft Windows designed to increase access speed by rearranging files stored on a disk to occupy contiguous storage locations, a technique called defragmentation.

Answer 2

Answer:

The purpose of fragmentation is to help an operating system use the available space on a storage device. In the absence of disk fragmentation, application and file storage need to continuously be updating and moving storage blocks, in order to maintain a continuous, non-fragmented file system.