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

[Derek Broughton]

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?

I'm still pretty new to VMWare (just installed this week), but surely from
the VM's viewpoint, you really only have the option of using the Host
system's files, shared via Samba, so if your host is Linux, use your FS of
choice, and if your host is Windows, use NTFS.  And of course, files served
by Apache are "HTTP", not FAT, NTFS or EXT3.  I wouldn't put anything on a
FAT filesystem.
-- 
derek