One /home/username shared amongst several Fedora instances using external HD

[CB]

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.
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>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.
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>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.)
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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?