Sharing Drive Between Ubuntu and Windows 7

Sharing Drive Between Ubuntu and Windows 7 I'm dual booting between Win7 and Ubuntu 8.10. Is there anything special I need to do to share a drive between the two? Or since they're on different file systems you cannot? For example a partition that holds mp3s.
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"FAT32 is the usual, to have a shared partition (can be written/read under Ubuntu and Win7).
Though Ubuntu can read (and maybe write ? Not sure) on NTFS partition.
So in general, a shared partition will be easier if formatted in FAT32. Though be careful of limitations, you won't be able to have a file with a size superior to 4gb on it. (but I guess that for mp3 it will be ok ;) )

For the opposite (reading pure linux partition (ext3, for example)), you will need software like explore2fs"