frankly, this does not bother me much. Problem is the nfs export still does not working. Some suggested that to do someting on iptables or firewall setting. I have not get insides to fix it. any hints on iptables is welcomeed. YD > huh? why do you want to set the backup and fsck > sequence numbers for > an nfs mounted partition? "0 0" is more normal/usual > for nfs mounted > partitions. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com