The message 20051107101454.GC983@thebowery.co.uk from Adam Bower adam@thebowery.co.uk contains these words:
If it was with Woody, it's sure to be in Sarge. I'll report back in due course.
I'm 99% certain that cfdisk can create partitions of *type* NTFS (along with the other types it can "create" and knows about, iirc the partition type identifier is a Hex value written to the partition table), but you won't actually be able to format them.
Ah, it's just a label so other OSs know where home is?