In what circumstances is compaction of secondary storage useful?

What will be an ideal response?

When the disk becomes heavily fragmented, even sequential files will be allocated in
small pieces widely scattered throughout the disk. In applications in which sequential files
need to be processed efficiently, compaction is appropriate.

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