NTFS and Debian
Long time ago it was a pain in the neck to use ntfs units with Debian. Now we have a third generation driver in a package called ntfs-3g, but there is something extra to have a unit (specially external ones) working with write permissions. I had an external hard disk LG formatted with NTFS, and I wanted to make it work with my Debian Squeeze.
apt-get install libfuse2 fuse-utils ntfs-3g ntfsprogs
though probably with only ntfs-3g would work.
After that, plug your unit in, discover its device name (for instance, $ dmesg | tail -20), and mount it with the following line:
mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/LG -o umask=0,nls=utf8
Ready 