Cheers,

I've recently returned to the world of linux and have run in to quite a pickle.
I want to know if it's at all possible to use an ntfs partition that I use in windows as my home folder. I have edited fstab to make my user the owner of the partition, but apparently I'm still doing something wrong.

Here's my fstab

I do believe that I can't be that far off? Can someone help me?

You don't explain the exact nature of the problem. Nevertheless I would expect that the partition is being mounted as read-only. This is due to two problems in your fstab entry. First you specify the file system as being ntfs when it should be ntfs-3g. Second you specify ro in your mount options. Your Linux home folder needs to be mounted read-write in order for various applications, such as the desktop GUI software, to run properly.

This next line is probably closer to what you want.
More information is available in the manual pages.

Thank you ever so kindly.

You're right, my original post was a bit hazy - I blame the brain numbness of staring at my fstab too long. The problem at first was that the partition owner was root, which effed up a whole lot of settings because of not being able to write to my home dir. When I thought I'd fixed it, turns out I only had read-only access, as you can easily tell.

I do however still seem to have troubles starting the pulse-audio daemon. I have to set my volume using alsa-mixer. Can this issue be related to using my ntfs-partition as my home directory? It worked before I changed the fstab settings, but I'm drawing blanks here.

This is probably a new problem. You should mark this problem solved via the thread tools near the top of the page and start a new thread for the pulse audio. The new thread should mention that you are using NTFS for your home directory.