"Branko F. Gracner" wrote: > > /dev/hda8 on /export/home type ext3 > (rw,nosuid,usrquota=/var/quotas/export.home.usrquota, > grpquota=/var/quotas/export.home.grpquota) woah. What are you trying to do here? The grpquota and usrquota mount options are now ignored, but if you have somehow managed to convince ext3 to place /export/home's quota files on /var/quotas, ext3 will explode in exactly the way you have described. Please tell us exactly where the quota files for each filesystem actually reside. Are any of the quota files redirected via symlinks (or, indeed, mount --bind)? Thanks.