Due to some bugs playing hide-and-seek with(in) the “Hardware Abstraction Layer” (short: HAL) of Linux, at present, it seems to be virtually impossible to access NTFS devices by applying the otherwise usual “click to mount” method … But with “NeanderThal” being the least worse of Mickey$oft file systems, thus to be preferred to any version of (V)FAT, a way to restore acceptable usability is badly needed – and provided provisorily by this (my) loopy little “bug by-pass”:
With ntfs-3g and fuse installed and configured properly by default (well done, this time …), one difficult task remains to be coped with: the unambiguous identification of the partition in question, preferably on the basis of it’s ID (sic!), as elaborated in this text (applying analogously to non-removable media), resulting in a device node identifier akin to:
/dev/disk/by-id/usb-SWISSBIT_Twist_10003406R5000049-0:0-part1
Based on that information and with a matching mount point prepared (e.g. /media/mickey), finally, all data has to be compiled in(to) an adequate amendment to the file system table (/etc/fstab), comparable with:
/dev/disk/by-id/[blurb] /media/mickey ntfs-3g users,umask=000 0 0
If all this went well, “media neandertalensis” ought to be available virtually as if they were hosting real file systems
