ntfs access on debian

[Leonardo Sá]

I want to have a partition to access both on winxp and debian, however, i want it to be easy to use on both OSes. What I did was to format a NTFS partition, which i successfully mounted on winxp on the "my documents" folder, and I was planning to mount the same partition under "/home/user". However, is it safe to enable write access to ntfs partitions on linux? If not, is there any other better alternatives?

Cheers,
Leo