Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

[Eric Dunbar]

Hi, another question:

I'd like to share files for read-write access between Windows XP and
Ubuntu 6.06. To be specific, I'd like to share two partitions: 1. a VM
(virtual machine for VMware); and, 2. files to be served up by apache
and smbd in that VM.

What is the best disk format to use? FAT, NTFS, ext3?

Thanks.