Question about defragmenting a file by copying it ???

I recently defragmented my drive which had heavy drive fragmentation (meaning there was very little contigious free space) and thought that after the defragment if I copied a bunch of large files back to the drive that the files wouldn't be fragmented. (Back to the old DOS days where copy made a contigious copy, I guess).
I was surprised to find that the files I copied back to the drive were fairly fragmented even thoug almost all of the free space was now contigious. This seems kind of starnge to me.
I know all about HFS+ and its auto defragmentation of small files but after 6 months my drive's free space was so fragmented (almost 76%) that I thought it was worth it. It was, the drive has now less that 3% fragmentation but I have 3 big (2+ GB) files VM images that when I cpoied them back to the drive became pretty fragmented, this surprised me.
Is there any way to make a contigious copy?
TIA,
Peter

vm (virtual memory) files are transient, (used to store currently active program code and data) you normally only have one, and you can delete it and start over anytime ...

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