RE: Is Raid as frought as it looks?

[Dickinson, Ross]

> Sure, with RAID1 one can cheat by going degraded 1 -> degraded 5,
> and the net result is a larger partition, but he's starting from a raw
> partition ...

What about lower end start-ups?  Say, if I have one drive, and I just
managed to get a second drive, so I'd like to start mirroring (RAID1).
There doesn't seem to be any way to make a two disk mirrored bootable md0
without a third drive...is there?

 -Ross