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From: Chris Pratt <eagletree@hughes.net>
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 19:20:15 -0700
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Subject: Re: Using mirroring to replace drive?
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On Oct 18, 2008, at 7:03 PM, John Nielsen wrote:
> On Saturday 18 October 2008, Chris Pratt wrote:
>>
>> 1. Is this an appropriate way to deal with this?
>
> It could be. However if the new disks are not the same size as the  
> failing
> ...
> it. Worst case you end up booting from a single drive and have to  
> manually
> specify your root partition.
>>
> JN

Wow, I was asking a concept question and got what appears
to be a comprehensive plan. I appreciate the effort, it will save
me quite a bit of time.

Thanks very much,
Chris