Hi,

Does upgrading a a disk being used by postgres (9.1, on Ubuntu) with the
following process sound safe?

   1. pg_start_backup
   2. Take a filesystem snapshot (of a volume containing postgres data but
   not pg_xlog)
   3. Bring a new higher performing disk online from snapshot
   4. pg_ctl stop
   5. switch disks (umount/remount at same mountpoint)
   6. pg_ctl start
   7. pg_stop_backup

This seems like an odd use case because pg_start_backup is designed for
performing on-line backups, but I think it will give me minimum downtime.

Thanks,

Jacob

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