a work partition on a dual boot machine

[Stephen Kraig]

Hi all, I am finally getting around to setting my main box (a pentium III currently running windoze 98) as a dual boot machine...I have set up linux only boxes before, but never a dual boot, and I am wondering if anyone has a suggestion for the following problem/desire   My plan for partitioning my 9 Gb hard drive is something as follows   win98 "root" partition (to hold the windows OS and program files) - 3Gb Debian root                                                                             - 1.5 Gb Swap                                                                                     - .5 Gb (512 M, because I do some intense math stuff...)   and the rest to be a work partition, which brings me to the question, files on the work partition should be accessable to both debian and windoze, and it would be nice if both systems could agree on the longer filenames....so what type of file system should this partition contain, and how do I create it?    --   Stephen Kraig (DrWho/TchnoMage)  http://www.wcsb.org/~drwho/        [EMAIL PROTECTED]  (formerly [EMAIL PROTECTED])