Creating a partition aligned to 1MB boundaries also does not produce a warning and might be (?) more likely to be optimally aligned.
(parted) mkpart Partition name? []? base File system type? [ext2]? ext4 Start? 1MB End? 250GB (parted) unit Unit? [compact]? s (parted) print Model: ATA ST9750420AS (scsi) Disk /dev/sdb: 1465149168s Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: gpt Number Start End Size File system Name Flags 1 2048s 488282111s 488280064s ext4 base 2 488282112s 1465147391s 976865280s ntfs Basic data partition (parted) align-check 1 parted: invalid token: 1 alignment type(min/opt) [optimal]/minimal? Partition number? 1 1 aligned -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/742164 Title: detects bad alignment but doesn't correct it -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
