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mbrscan says partition is not aligned

cschnidr
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Using mbrscan on the following VMDK, it complains that the second last partitions are not aligned. However, the offset is divideable by 8. Any hints here?

[root@srp0777777ghp ~]# find /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/ -name "*-flat.vmdk" -exec mbrscan {} \;
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p1 (Linux)        lba:128 offset:65536    aligned:Yes
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p2 (Linux)        lba:512256      offset:262275072        aligned:Yes
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p3 (Linux)        lba:16896384    offset:8650948608       aligned:Yes
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p4 (EBR ) lba:23040512    offset:11796742144      aligned:Yes
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e1 (Linux)        lba:23040640    offset:11796807680      aligned:Yes
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e2 (Linux)        lba:29184768    offset:14942601216      aligned:No
/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e3 (swap) lba:33280896    offset:17039818752      aligned:No
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cschnidr
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this is going to be addressed in EHU 5.2.1

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