Reliable Windows Vista partition writing from Linux

The first thing to do in order to mount a windows vista partition (in a reliable read-write mode) from a Linux, is to add support for FUSE, which means to add support for filesystem in userspace

Support for FUSE was added to linux kernel from the 2.6.14 version. To enable it:
File systems  --->
<*> Filesystem in Userspace support


After recompiling and booting the kernel, it’s necessary to install NTFS-3G. In gentoo linux this means issuing a “emerge sys-fs/ntfs3g”

To mount the driver:

ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /mnt/win