chown -R postfix:postdrop /mnt/old_var/spool/postfix/maildrop chown -R postfix:postfix /mnt/old_var/spool/postfix/defer* mv /mnt/old_var/spool/postfix/maildrop/* /var/spool/postfix/maildrop/
cd /mnt/old_var/spool/postfix/ find defer -type f -printf "%P\n" \ | while read f; do for d in defer deferred; do mv -v $d/$f /var/spool/postfix/$d/$f done done
or in 2 lines:
cd /mnt/old_var/spool/postfix/ find defer -type f -printf "%P\n" | while read f; do for d in defer deferred; do mv -v $d/$f /var/spool/postfix/$d/$f; done; done