I'm having trouble understanding your description. Are you saying that you used gparted to create the GPT disklabel, and format a partition, and then the gnome disk utility gives the warning about the 3072 byte misalignment? Can you attach the output of sudo parted -l?
** Changed in: parted (Ubuntu) Status: New => Incomplete -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/983630 Title: parted gpt partitioning error does not allow for 3072KB of needed space must go back and repartition durring install To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/983630/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs