External hard drive how to format it?

External hard drive how to format it? I just bought a hard drive of 500GB that I want to use on Mac OS X and GNU/Linux but be able to use some file on Windows.
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Guest [Entry]

You could go with an ext3 and mount it in Windows and Mac OS. I've used the Windows software before, worked fine, I can't personally vouch for ext2/3 on Mac OS, but it appears a valid solution.

Guest [Entry]

Do you have snow leopard? If so, install the boot camp drivers on the machine.... When you are in Windows, put in your Snow Leopard DVD, and the boot camp drivers should install automatically... They include HPFS drivers which should allow you to read/write to the Macintosh partitions...