GNU Parted Alignment Check Option

GNU Parted 2.1 (available in Redhat 6+) has a very interesting option for storage engineers, sysadmins and DBAs:

2.4.1 align-check

Command: align-check align-type n

    Determine whether the starting sector of partition n meets the
disk’s selected alignment criteria. align-type must be ‘minimal’,
‘optimal’ or an abbreviation. When in script mode, if the partition
does not meet the alignment requirement, exit with status 1;
otherwise (including on older kernels for which alignment data
is not available), continue processing any remaining commands.
Without --script, print either ‘N aligned’ or ‘N not aligned’.

    Example:

    (parted) align-check minimal 1
    1 aligned

gdisk

Script to automatically partition a new disk and create LVM PV

1) fdisk can be used in scripts. people do that every day.
2) parted -a just reports if alignment is optimal, it doesn't align.
So you need a loop or something to attempt an optimal alignment.

Create partition aligned using parted