Procedure:
1. Change to single-user mode by logging in as su. This stopped anyone
from using the
mail program.
2. Copy the files from /var/spool/mail to /new1/mail
cp -rp /var/spool/mail /new1 /* this is a recursive-preserve copy,
which
chown username filename * preserved everything except
ownership. I
* used chown on each file, making everything
/* identical to the original directories.
cp -rp /var/spool/mqueue /new1
chown username filename
3. Remove the original files
cd /var/spool
rm -rf mqueue
rm -rf mail
4. Create soft links.
ln -s /var/spool/mqueue /new1/mqueue
ln -s /var/spool/mail /new1/mail
5. Then I rebooted
shutdown -r now
6. Checked out the mail, directories and file systems. The / file system
was down
to 55% full and is no longer affected by the buildup of mail.
All's well that ends well!
Thanks to all again.
Jim