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    This is a really nice answer Giles. Thanks for those links. Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 0:44
  • Thank you! I appreciate your prompt and informative answer -- especially with all of the links to help me further! Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 1:25
  • May I ask, for those of us that are heavy torrenters, which file system would best suit our needs for a dedicated torrent partition? Does anyone know? Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 1:38
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    @Tshepang: Some always preallocate, some allocate lazily, some are configurable. Commented Apr 20, 2011 at 7:16
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    There's a tool called pydefrag as well which basically just copies around files so they get a chance to be rewritten contiguously, but it's probably only useful if you got fragmented from filling up the drive and now made enough space for those copies to happen. Commented May 10, 2011 at 16:14