Greetings again. I need to move /var/mail to /usr/mail because my / 
partition fills up too quickly. At the moment, I can't open a very 
large mailbox in POP because there isn't enough space on / to handle 
the temporary file. I have a way around that for now, but I want a 
long-term solution.

Does the following seem like a safe way to have mail put in /usr 
instead of /var?

1) create /usr/mail with the same permissions as /var/mail
2) shut down sendmail to prevent incoming mail from writing locally
3) mv /var/mail/* /usr/mail
4) rmdir /var/mail
5) ln -s /usr/mail /var/mail

I don't want to rely on changing all of the things that write to or 
read from /var/mail to look at /usr/mail, which is why I have the 
symbolic link.

Does anyone see a problem with the above steps? Can you think of 
anything safer?

--Paul Hoffman