Quote Originally Posted by roytobin
How to assure the necessary "fuse" module is loaded into the kernel.

% /sbin/modprobe -l | /bin/grep fuse
/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko

If you don't see this pipe return a line like the one above that contains fuse, you don't yet have fuse loaded into the kernel. As the instructions state, this new dynamically loaded piece of the kernel must be present to mount a 'ntfs-fuse' type filesystem. You need to either a) reboot or b) execute the modeprobe command as root as the original post states.
Both options, of course, are after you have followed the procedures in the original post already.

Depending on your font, please know the lowercase "el"
character (for "list") is passed to the modprobe program in the above example, and the vertical bar symbol (aka pipe symbol) follows.

The instructions were good enough to get me going on
% uname -a
Linux ldt-sdoa-004 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

Dapper system without any troubles and with gratitude.
Thanks. I tried typing the command:
Code:
chefen@chefen-desktop:~$ /sbin/modprobe -l | /bin/grep fuse
/lib/modules/2.6.15-23-386/kernel/fs/fuse/fuse.ko
I have restarded my computer and also been trying to run the command:
Code:
chefen@chefen-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe fuse && sudo umount -a && sudo mount -a
Password:
umount: /home: enheten är upptagen (couldn't unmount)
umount: /dev: enheten är upptagen (couldn't unmount)
umount: /var/run: enheten är upptagen (couldn't unmount)
umount: /: enheten är upptagen (couldn't unmount)
But the ntfs partition is not mounted. It was mounted before the changes in fstab:

Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hda6       /               ext2    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hda8       /home           ext2    defaults        0       2
/dev/hda5       /media/lagring  vfat    user,utf8,auto,fmask=0111,dmask=0000 0       1
#/dev/hda5       /media/lagring  vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
/dev/hda1       /media/win      ntfs-fuse    auto,gid=1002,umask=0002    0    0
#/dev/hda1       /media/win      ntfs    defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
/dev/hda7       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdd        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0
Code:
    Enhet Start     Början        ****     Block    Id  System
/dev/hda1   *           1         637     5116671    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2             638       24321   190241730    f  W95 Utökad (LBA)
/dev/hda5            5228       24321   153372555    b  W95 FAT32
/dev/hda6             638        1275     5124672   83  Linux
/dev/hda7            1276        1402     1020096   82  Linux växling / Solaris
/dev/hda8            1403        5227    30724281   83  Linux
Code:
chefen@chefen-desktop:~$ uname -a
Linux chefen-desktop 2.6.15-23-386 #1 PREEMPT Tue May 23 13:49:40 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
And I have installed the packages libntfs8, ntfsprogs and libfuse2 from synaptic since they were not installed on my clean desktop install of dapper?

I hope I have provided enough information so that we could see what's wrong. Any ideas?