topic Re: mbrscan says partition is not aligned in VMware Solutions Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbrscan-says-partition-is-not-aligned/m-p/35262#M3479 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>this is going to be addressed in EHU 5.2.1</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:13:09 GMT cschnidr 2010-10-08T09:13:09Z mbrscan says partition is not aligned https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbrscan-says-partition-is-not-aligned/m-p/35257#M3477 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>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?</P><BLOCKQUOTE class="jive-quote"><SPAN style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Courier New; ">[root@srp0777777ghp ~]# find /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/ -name "*-flat.vmdk" -exec mbrscan {} \;</SPAN><SPAN style="font-family: Courier New;"> <BR /> <SPAN style="color: #0000ff;">/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p1 (Linux)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lba:</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #008000;">128</SPAN><SPAN style="color: #0000ff;"> offset:65536&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:Yes<BR /> /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p2 (Linux)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lba:512256&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:262275072&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:Yes<BR /> /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p3 (Linux)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lba:16896384&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:8650948608&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:Yes<BR /> /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk p4 (EBR ) lba:23040512&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:11796742144&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:Yes<BR /> /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e1 (Linux)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lba:23040640&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:11796807680&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:Yes<BR /> </SPAN><SPAN style="color: #ff0000;">/vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e2 (Linux)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lba:29184768&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:14942601216&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:No<BR /> /vmfs/volumes/DHP_NetApp_OS/LinuxTemplate/test_image-CSL2.2rc1-base-flat.vmdk e3 (swap) lba:33280896&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; offset:17039818752&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; aligned:No</SPAN></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:11:42 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbrscan-says-partition-is-not-aligned/m-p/35257#M3477 cschnidr 2025-06-05T07:11:42Z Re: mbrscan says partition is not aligned https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbrscan-says-partition-is-not-aligned/m-p/35262#M3479 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>this is going to be addressed in EHU 5.2.1</P></BODY></HTML> Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:13:09 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/VMware-Solutions-Discussions/mbrscan-says-partition-is-not-aligned/m-p/35262#M3479 cschnidr 2010-10-08T09:13:09Z