On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Rick Genter <rick.genter@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe that this accomplishes the goal (increasing available drive space)
> with a minimum amount of down time. Am I thinking correctly, or have I
> missed something?
>
That is the general procedure you would follow to perform maintenance
on a busy DB server. Just practice it on a spare set of machines (or
virtual machines, even) and write down *every* step and command you
need to do so you are not thinking of it on the fly.