There’s your problem. Your /homemust be on a native Linux filesystem such as ext4, btrfs, jfs or xfs, and not on NTFS, because NTFS does not store UNIX/POSIX file ownership and permissions. This means that when an NTFS or other non-POSIX filesystem is mounted into the tree, its file ownership and permissions need to be emulated in the kernel’s virtual filesystem layer at mount time, and cannot be altered in real-time, nor can they be set for individual files and directories.
Please read through these two long but very explanatory tutorials…
That will have been a fluke. I’m afraid you’re going to have to repartition your system.
