Comment 1 for bug 742164

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