A system, method, and computer-readable medium for consolidating all the currently used areas to the beginning of the datafile by performing a datafile reorganization operation. With this consolidation, more space can be recovered from the datafile. More specifically, with the consolidation, because each used area can contain extents related to several different segments, locating all the segments that have extents in a used area and relocate these segments to lower addresses in the datafile can be challenging.