Best practice for sharing a third drive with Windows 11 in same host computer?

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Ubuntu Version:
26.04

Desktop Environment (if applicable):
Cinnamon (Probably not)

Problem Description:
I seek to install Ubuntu on a separate drive from Windows, and have a third drive for files I can access from both operating systems.

These files will mostly be documents, music, pictures, and other non-programs, but I wouldn’t mind having a shared Steam library if that can be done properly.

My research says the best method is a NFS share on a journaling file system hosted by another PC, but I’m curious if there’s a reliable alternative for all three drives in one machine?

I could use ExFAT for the third drive’s file system (Since both operating systems can use it natively) but I’d like to have journaling for extra reliability.

I’ve already disabled fast startup/shutdown in Windows, because I’ve read that can cause issues.

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I’d recommend NTFS as well. You need to accommmodate Windows as it is not able to access many file systems

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Moved to Project Discussion > Pre-Release Discussion

26.04 is still in development at this stage.

Thanks

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I’m currently running 24.04 and W11 on separate SSDs with shared files on a HDD formatted as NTFS. I initially had problems with W11 not unmounting the drive but it’s been fine since I fully disabled fast startup.