HOW TO TRANSFER QUOTAS FROM ONE MACHINE TO ANOTHER On the old server... Save the quotas: repquota -a | awk '{ print $1 " " $4 " " $5}' > home_quotas remove the trash from the file. copy it to the new server On the new server... initialize quotas: quotacheck -vagum build the quotas: cat home_quotas | while read LINE; do setquota -u `echo ${LINE} | awk '{ print $1 }'` `echo ${LINE} | awk '{ print $2 }'` `echo ${LINE} | awk '{ print $3 }'` 0 0 -a; done