Take the 2-minute tour ×  The official documentation of NTFS-3G
states that you need to create a mapping for drive-spanning NTFS
symlinks because it obviously can't map Windows drives to Linux
mount points:   This is the case, as this ls -lisah shows:
224031    0 lrwxrwxrwx 2 root root   40 Aug  5  2010 creations
-> /media/Daten/.NTFS-3G/W:/  So basically I need to create a
symlink named "W:" in /media/Daten/.NTFS-3G that enables file
lookups to the correct mount point. But the problem is... how am
I supposed to create a colon in a filename on a NTFS partition?
It simply does not work:  strayer@layer:/media/Daten/.NTFS-3G$
ls -lisah insgesamt 13K 105347   0 drwxrwxrwx 1 root root   0
Dez  5 21:38 .      5 12K drwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12K Dez  6
09:47 .. 105348 512 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  42 Dez  5 21:38 W ->
/media/truecrypt1 strayer@layer:/media/Daten/.NTFS-3G$ LANG=""
sudo ln -s /media/truecrypt1/ "./W:" ln: failed to create
symbolic link `./W:': Invalid argument  Not surprising, since a
colon is forbidden