Best Filesystems?

[Steve]

Hi,

I have a question about filesystem types. I've got an 80GB drive that
I'm planning to reformat and install Ubuntu. I plan to create 3
partitions:

9.0 GB - For the OS and system files.
512 MB - SWAP (equal to amount of RAM)
70 GB - For user data files which will include many MP3s, OGGs and a
few DVD rips (ie. mostly single large files > 1MB each)

My question is which filesystems would be optimal? I'm used to ext3,
but would ReiserFS be better for the OS/system files? Is ext3 best for
the large data files or ext2 or ReiserFS? If I occasionally boot from
a liveCD I'd need to be able to have full access (R/W) to files on the
70GB partition.

Also, I will be using VMware 5.0 with windowsxp as Guest OS. Does
anyone know if windows in VMware needs to be installed on a FAT/NTFS
partition? As it is all virtual, I am assuming it can be installed on
a linux filesystem.

Thanks for any info and suggestions.

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