NTFS and Mac OS X woes

Every once in a while, when trying to mount a NTFS drive on Mac OS X with NTFS-3G + MacFuse, I get an error stating "NTFS-3G could not mount - unclean shutdown".

Contrary to the message box that pops up, mount -o force .. doesn't help; what helps is:

sudo mkdir /Volumes/NTFS

sudo /usr/local/bin/ntfs-3g -o force /dev/rdisk2s1 /Volumes/NTFS/

This will create a directory /Volumes/NTFS and mount the NTFS drive there (assuming /dev/rdisk2s1 is the correct device, of course).