CompTIA Server+ SK0-005 Practice Question
A systems administrator installs a 4 TB SATA drive in a RHEL 9 file server. After creating a single partition with fdisk, the mounted XFS file system reports only 2 TB of usable space. Running parted -l shows:
Disk /dev/sdc: 4000GB
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 2000GB 2000GB primary xfs
Attempts to add another partition fail with the message, "partition length exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 sectors." Which action will allow the server to use the drive's full capacity without replacing hardware?
Flash the drive so it reports 4096-byte sectors instead of 512-byte sectors.
Recreate the disk label as GPT and build an XFS partition that spans the full 4 TB.
Enable Large Block Addressing (LBA) in firmware to permit access beyond 2 TB.
Create two 2 TB primary partitions and merge them with LVM into one logical volume.