Jeff Vian wrote:
His removable drive should work as long as the mount is delayed until
after the drivers are loaded. Automount may be needed.
As far as the new partition for /home it is easy to do, as long as you
do not have users logged in and using /home. (if they are logged in some
of this may not work properly.) You would need to be logged in as root
to do this.
1. Mount the new partition somewhere (such as /newhome)/
2. transfer all files from /home to /newhome
You can use tar, or cp with the appropriate options for this.
3. verify everything was copied right and that everything is there.
4. after 3 is complete then empty the old home directory
# rm -rf /home/*
5. edit /etc/fstab to mount the new partition on /home automatically at
startup.
6. unmount /newhome and remount it on /home. (You may need to reboot if
users are logged in to the system.)
In order to mount my firewire drive I find I have to manually issue
'modprobe ohci1394'. I know nothing about kernel modules, but assume
this is loading the appropriate driver. How can I make sure the firewire
driver is automatically loaded?
