Parted and gparted already default to aligning the partition start to 1mb, not sector 63. It sounds like you used fdisk to partition the drive. Repartition it with gparted and it should be properly aligned.
** Changed in: gparted (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/780093 Title: No way to align 4096/4k-HDDs properly To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gparted/+bug/780093/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs