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

[Eric Dunbar]

On 03/02/07, Duncan Lithgow <dlithgow at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 06:02 -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> > 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?
> FAT: Reliable, proven to work. But not the greatest on-disk filesystem.

Thanks for your thoughts:

"not the greatest on-disk filesystem"?

What do you mean with that particular phrase? I'm most concerned with
avoiding data corruption when switching between Windows XP and Ubuntu.

Eric.