A storage administrator in a virtualized environment has been told by a user that there is no space left on the volume to which the user can write. However, a check reveals that there is 20GB of unused space. Which of the following explains the discrepancy?
A) The drive is not formatted
B) The drive is thin provisioned
C) The drive is thick provision eager zeroed
D) The drive space is overallocated

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Thin provisioning allows more storage to be allocated than is physically available, leading to situations where logical space appears full even if physical space is available.

A Storage Administrator in a Virtualized Environment Has Been Told