Recommended Partitioing for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux

I have a Mac Pro with three 500 GB Hard Drives. I would like to put Mac OS X on one, Windows on another and Linux on the third Drive.
I also would lik to share data between them. I understand that Windows cannot read or write to HFS+. But Linux can read and write to HFS (non journaled). The only common disk format that all OS's can read is FAT32.
For partitioning I am thinking of the following:
Disk 1 -- Three Partitions
Partition 1 - Hidden EFI (size ?? and type??)
Partition 2 - HFS+ for Mac OSX (200 GB)
Partition 3 - HFS+ for Data (190 GB or so)
Disk 2 - Four Partitions
Partition 1 - NTFS for Sawp (4 GB)
Partition 2 - NTFS for Windows (200 GB)
Partition 3 - NTFS for Data (200 GB)
Partition 4 - FAT 32 for Shared Data (90 GB or so)
(P.S. I will have to use a special formatting program since windows only allows you to format FAT32 up to 32 GB or so).
Disk 3 - Three Partitions
Partition 1 - Linux Swap (4 GB)
Partition 2 - / root (200 GB)
Partition 3 - Home (290 GB or so)
Will this partitioning scheme work?
How big should the hidden EFI partition be and what is its type? HFS+?
Rob

No need to use special software for formating windows drive. You can do it in Apple Disk Utilities application.
In Disk Utilities, select drive then partition. Select options and set as Master Boot Record (MBR). Set your partitions to the size you want. Set the format to MS-DOS File System for each partition. This will make them all FAT32. Erase each so that they have the FAT32 format.
When you install Windows, you can then format the one with Windows XP OS to NTFS. After XP is installed you can then convert the other 2 partitions to NTFS.
You now will have 3 NTFS partitions and 1 large FAT32 partition.
I did it this way but only 1 NTFS and 1 FAT32 partition and also on PATA drive in optical bay.
john

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