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XK0-004 · Question #316

A systems administrator wants to increase the existing drive space on a Linux server with a software RAID. After physically adding the new drive to the system, and then adding the drive to the RAID ar

The correct answer is D. Grow the array size to four members.. With mdadm you need to grow the array, otherwise the drive will just be used as a spare in the

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Question

A systems administrator wants to increase the existing drive space on a Linux server with a software RAID. After physically adding the new drive to the system, and then adding the drive to the RAID array, the administrator notices the available drive space has not increased. A status of the array shows the new drive and the original storage space:

md0 : active Raid sdd1[3]S sdc1[2] sdb1[1] sda1[0] 954585654 blocks level5 64K chunk algorithm 2 [3/3] [UUU] Which of the following should the administrator do to make all storage space available on the RAID array?

Options

  • ARun to alert the kernel to a new drive.
  • BConvert the new drive to a hot spare.
  • CSet the RAID type to a RAID 1.
  • DGrow the array size to four members.

How the community answered

(27 responses)
  • A
    11% (3)
  • B
    7% (2)
  • C
    22% (6)
  • D
    59% (16)

Explanation

With mdadm you need to grow the array, otherwise the drive will just be used as a spare in the

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#software RAID#mdadm#RAID5#array expansion

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