• First remove the old version.
• Check if it is active using root> grep fuse /var/log/messages
• If something like "fuse init (API version 7.6) comes up then do root> rmmod fuse
• Again do a "grep" to see if a message "fuse exit" appears.
• Goto the fuse website and download the latest version of fuse.
• goto http://fuse.sourceforge.net/
• Click "Download" and download the latest tar-ball, currently version 2.6.3
• untar using root> tar -xf fuse-2.6.3.tar.gz
• Copy the fuse-2.6.3 directory to /usr/local/src
• Open a terminal and goto /usr/local/src/fuse-2.6.3/
• do root> ./configure --enable-kernel-module
• do root> make
• do root> make install
• do root> modprobe fuse
• Again do a grep and see if "fuse init (API version 7.8)" and "fuse distribution version: 2.6.3" appears at the end of the messages...
• Then fuse is installed correctly as a module..

Now we install the NTFS-3G driver:

• Goto http://www.ntfs-3g.org/
• Goto "downloads" and than find the "CVS" link. I do not install the tar-ball because there is a lot of development going on you'll always have the newest driver.
• Open a console and cd to your downloads directory
• type: cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@ntfs-3g.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ntfs-3g co -P ntfs-3g
• All the necessary files are downloaded.
• Copy the "ntfs-3g" directory to /usr/local/src/
• cd to /usr/local/src/ntfs-3g
• do root> ./autogen.sh
• do root> ./configure
• do root> make
• do root> make install

Mount a drive:

• I've used an usb drive which was previously formatted on a windows pc. Be sure that it is removed from the windows pc with the "safely remove hardware" control panel
• After connecting it will probably auto mount using the standard readonly ntfs driver...
• Under suse look at "My computer" (KDE) and see if the drive is listed under "Disk Information" and accessible.
• open a console and type root> mount
• This will show a list with currently mounted devices. The latest mounted device is shown last.
• Remember the device path (/dev/sdb1), Also remember the mount path (/media/IngexMedia)
• Now unmount the disk using root> umount /media/IngexMedia
• Check with root> mount if unmount was succesfull
• Now mount the drive using the NTFS-3G driver
• do root> mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/IngexMedia
• If you get the message "Volume is scheduled for check" you can try and force the mount using: root> mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /media/IngexMedia -o force This should normally not be a problem to do...
• Check that you can access the disk through its mount path and you can write to it....
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