Just to increase the state of confusion.

[Steve]

---- Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote: 
> On Sun, 2009-01-11 at 23:26 -0500, Steve wrote:
> > Can I simply add my Windows mount point back into fstab? Is this the
> > "correct" way to do it
> 
> As I recall, it is.  And there's a simple way to test it...

OK, mount reported this when the partition is automounted:
/dev/sdb1 on /media/disk type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)

so I added this to /etc/fstab:
/dev/sdb1    /mnt/c_drive       fuse    rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096      0 0

but then as root
# mount /dev/sdb1
/bin/sh: /dev/sdb1: Permission denied

# ls -l /dev/sdb1 
brw-r----- 1 root disk 8, 17 2009-01-12 13:24 /dev/sdb1

It's not a selinux problem because I'm running in permissive mode:
# sestatus
SELinux status:                 enabled
SELinuxfs mount:                /selinux
Current mode:                   permissive
Mode from config file:          permissive
Policy version:                 23
Policy from config file:        targeted

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Steve