I'm not sure I follow this.  On my NFS server, /home is one big
partition which is on a separate disk from the server's own /, /usr,
etc.

> 
> In article <4.2.1.19991203235916.034e8de0@pop.azstarnet.com>,
> Gordon C. Zaft <zaft@azstarnet.com> wrote:
> >
> >	The exports file on the server looks like:
> >
> >#/etc/exports
> >           home/export/pmax/root -maproot=root damasus.zaft.org
> >           home/export/pmax/swap -maproot=root damasus.zaft.org
> >           home/export/pmax/usr                damasus.zaft.org
> >           home/export/pmax/home               damasus.zaft.org
> >
> >The permissions on the exported /usr and /home are:
> >
> >drwxr-xr-x	2 root wheel	512	Dec 3 22:39 home
> >drwxr-xr-x  	13 root wheel	512	Dec 3 22:32 usr
> >
> >When I restart mountd I get:
> >
> >Can't change attributes for /home/export/pmax/usr
> >Bad exports list line /home/export/pmax/usr
> 
> >From the BUGS section of exports:
> 
> BUGS
>      The export options are tied to the local mount points in the kernel and
>      must be non-contradictory for any exported subdirectory of the local
>      server mount point.  It is recommended that all exported directories
>      within the same server filesystem be specified on adjacent lines going
>      down the tree.  You cannot specify a hostname that is also the name of a
>      netgroup.  Specifying the full domain specification for a hostname can
>      normally circumvent the problem.
> 
> So my guess is that usr is in the same partition as root and swap...
> 
> christos
>