160 GB win/linux storage

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I was wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to best format a 160 GB partition so a dual boot windows 2000 pro / linux 2.4.20 system could have the data available for both with reliable read/write access.  I need it to be 1 partition because I'll be storing everything there that I want to keep and I'm not sure what is going to grow fastest of what I collect.  I tried ntfs which I formatted in linux with ntfstools and windows recognized it ok, but after writing lots of data to it it would refuse to mount it R/W in linux even with R/W options in the kernel.  So are there any other filesystems that I can use?  Fat32 won't handle the size, are there any good ext2/ext3/reiserfs drivers for win2k that aren't commercial?

Thanks for any help.

Jason Pfingstmann