How do you create a shared hot spare device for software raid devices?

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A hot spare device can be shared between two software raid devices, such as /dev/mdX and /dev/mdY. These raid devices can be configured with Raid levels like 1,5 and 6.

Assume the hot spare device has /dev/sdx1

Initially, it is required to add the spare device /dev/sdx1 to any one of the raid devices.

mdadm /dev/md0 -a /dev/sdx1

After adding the dis...

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