(^194) PC Hardware: A Beginner’s Guide
Operating Systems File System
DOS FAT
OS/2 HPFS
UNIX/Linux UNIX File System/Linux File System
Windows 3.x FAT/VFAT
Windows 95 VFAT and FAT32
Windows NT NTFS
Windows 2000 NTFS
Table 9-3. File Systems
Application Disk Space Needed Recommended Extra Space
Audio (WAV) 1 minute–10MB
1 hour–600MB
MP3 music 1 hour–120MB
3 hours–360MB
Business/financial
software
30–70MB 60–80MB
Interactive
graphics/games
100–350MB 250–300MB
Multimedia e-mail 2–5MB
MPEG video 100MB–10GB
Streaming video 2MB–1GB
MS Office 500MB–640MB 200MB
Table 9-4. Disk Space Requirements for Common Applications