Try adding yourself to the disk group (in /etc/group)

I can never get on with the binary(?) demarcation, but my (seperate) home partition is owned by root (in the staff group). In Kde, the permisions are like this:

Code:
x     x    x    0

 x     0    x    0

 x     0    x    0
more importantly, my own directory (/home/john) is owned by john in group john and has the same permissions.

The /etc/fstab entry reads:

/dev/hdc3 /home ext3 auto 0 0