gandalf@hellscream:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/ntfs-3g/README.Debian  
ntfs-3g for Debian
==================
 
THIS SOFTWARE IS STILL EXPERIMENTAL AND MAY CAUSE UNRECOVERABLE DATA LOSS
Presently, ntfs-3g is available for all Debian architectures. However,  
upstream says it only works for 32-bit little-endian systems.
 
Reliability, data consistency and stability are the highest priority of the
upstream team. It has been heavily tested on i386 architecture and no data
corruption has been reported so far. Many users reported it to work like a
charm on amd64 too. Unfortunately, the behaviour on ANY OTHER ARCHITECTURES
is unknown so  far.
 
TRY IT AT YOU OWN RISK! Please consider filing a bug report whether it works
or not on other architectures.
 
Please report a serious bug if the driver is unusable on arm for example,
so I can remove arm from supported architectures.
 
 
Quickstart guide for ntfs-3g
----------------------------
 
I assume NTFS partition is '/dev/hda1' and its mountpoint '/mnt/windows'.
 
1. Load fuse kernel module and add them to /etc/modules :
   modprobe fuse && echo "fuse" >> /etc/modules
 
2. Mount a NTFS partition :
   ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows
 
3. If you want to give full access for all users, ignore permission related
   driver messages, and make national characters visible then use (drop or
   replace the below fr_FR.utf8 with the appropriate setting, and also the
   device and mount points, if needed) :
 
   ntfs-3g /dev/hda1 /mnt/windows -o silent,umask=0,locale=fr_FR.utf8
 
4. To mount the patition at startup, edit /etc/fstab and add :
 
   /dev/hda1  /mnt/windows  ntfs-3g  silent,umask=0,locale=fr_FR.utf8  0  0
 
 -- Adam Cécile (Le_Vert) <gandalf@le-vert.net>, Tue, 3 Oct 2006 01:17:00 +0200