Home On Own Partition Problems

Hey everyone,

I'm new to Suse but am a longtime linux user. I have my hard drive in 4 partitions: windows, linux, swap, and home. During the opensuse install I chose to create a custom partition setup. I set sda4 (the home partition) to mount to /home among my other settings. After Suse installs I can't login as my user, I get an X windows displaying "could not start kstartupconfig 4, check your installation". Note that logging in as root works fine and so does my user from the console. Looking more closely, /home/[my_user] and all files/folders within it are owned by root. I've tried chown -hR [my_user] /home/[my_user] and it reports to change ownership correctly but it never really changes anything, root is always maintained. Is this the problem? Also, I am wondering if this has something to do with the way suse is mounting the drive? The relevant fstab entry is "/dev/sda4 /home ntfs-3g user,users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en _US.UTF-8 0 0", which is exactly as the installer created it. Or does the problem lie elsewhere?

Thanks!

Yes, you have to tell SUSE to mount the drive as you.

I think you might be leaving out some facts. How was your home partition formatted prior to installing openSuSE?

NTFS apparently, from his fstab entry.

NTFS apparently, from his fstab entry.
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Yes, it was NTFS. This was to integrate with my Windows install better (my ext3 drive got hosed one time when windows crashed and didn't dismount the drive properly). Considering how little I use Windows (games) I went ahead and formatted the home partition in ext3 and all works well. Thanks for the replies though!