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After converting a Linux VM fdisk shows Partition does not end on cylinder boundary

Converter 6.0. Performed a V2V on a SUSE 11 Server. Before V2V the Server partitions were not aligned, after the conversion, partitions look aligned but show the warnings below when running fdisk. The size of the volume was also increased from 30GB to 100GB. The system boots and seems to function just fine.

I looked around and the cylinder boundary warnings might be normal because the partitions were aligned and OS does not know about the alignment?

Can someone chime in if this is normal to see this?

fdisk -lu

Device           Boot     Start               End               Blocks          ID      System

/dev/sda1       *          128               20964991       10482432      83       Linux

Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda2                  20964992     23053567       1044288        83       Linux swap / Solaris

Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.

/dev/sda3                  23053568     232768767     104857600    83      Linux

Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.

sfdisk -uS -l /dev/sda

Device           Boot     Start               End               #sectors          ID      System

/dev/sda1       *          128               20964991       20964864      83       Linux

                                   end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,2,41)

/dev/sda2                  20964992     23053567       2088576        83       Linux swap / Solaris

                                   start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,2,42)

                                   end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,4,41)

/dev/sda3                  23053568     232768767   209715200       83      Linux

                                  start: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,4,42)

                                   end: (c,h,s) expected (1023,254,63) found (1023,47,22)

/dev/sda4                    0               -                              0                  0     Empty

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