Re: kernel: device-mapper: table: 254:1: adding target device sda1 caused an alignment inconsistency

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

On Fri 27 Jul 2018 at 18:46:02 (-0700), Rick Thomas wrote:
> When booting, I get 12 error messages similar to the following (three groups of four, each group with a different “start” value and corresponding minor device)
> 
> > Jul 24 03:40:08 small kernel: device-mapper: table: 254:1: adding target device sda1 caused an alignment inconsistency: physical_block_size=4096, logical_block_size=512, alignment_offset=0, start=33553920
> 
> Can anyone tell me what it means and what I should do about it?

That's the same message as I reported on an MBR disk in
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/02/msg00466.html

The post gives full details of the partitioning and the
creation of the encrypted filesystem which precede getting
the messages (in pairs).

There were no follow-ups.

Cheers,
David.