Why did my multipath device add a partition delimitier at reboot?

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Issue

  • Partition delimiter is being added at reboot to multipath devices.
  • Before reboot my device name is /dev/mapper/mpathx6. After reboot it is /dev/mapper/mpathxp6. Why?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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