partition resizing with parted

[Scott Frazier <rscottf@xxxxxxxx>]

I have this strange partition set up now which is essentially rendering 
10G Bytes
of my hard drive inaccessible to me.  I dual boot between Mandrake 9.1 
and FC2.
My Mandrake install is currently my primary, but want to eventually try 
and move
over to FC2 full time. 

I originally partitioned the drive to have a

/dev/hda1         Windows FAT32   10 G Bytes
/dev/hda2           Extended                 55 Gbytes
/dev/hda3   *      Linux                         3 Gbytes
/dev/hda4         Linux LVM                2 GBytes
/dev/hda5         Linux
/dev/hda6         Linux
/dev/hda7          Linux swap
/dev/hda8          Linux
/dev/hda9         Linux
/dev/hda10         Linux

Obviously, 5-10 are part of the extended partition.
I have FC2 on hda3 and hda4 (by the way, the LVM setup
on FC2 worked great!).

Well, I decided windows wasn't in this box's future, so I decided to reclaim
the 10 Byte FAT32 for Linux.  I used Mandrake's "diskdrake", but this is 
what it did:
  Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2             1    104487  52661038+   5  Extended   Device 
Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2             1    104487  52661038+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3   *    104487    111802   3686917+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4        111802    116265   2249100   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda5         21070     22122    530113+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6         22122     28433   3180838+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7         28433     30489   1036161   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8         30489     62316  16040871   83  Linux
/dev/hda9         62316     73265   5518264+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10        73265    104487  15735604+  83  Linux

/dev/hda3   *    104487    111802   3686917+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4        111802    116265   2249100   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda5         21070     22122    530113+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6         22122     28433   3180838+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7         28433     30489   1036161   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8         30489     62316  16040871   83  Linux
/dev/hda9         62316     73265   5518264+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10        73265    104487  15735604+  83  Linux   Device Boot    
Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda2             1    104487  52661038+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3   *    104487    111802   3686917+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4        111802    116265   2249100   8e  Linux LVM
/dev/hda5         21070     22122    530113+  83  Linux
/dev/hda6         22122     28433   3180838+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7         28433     30489   1036161   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda8         30489     62316  16040871   83  Linux
/dev/hda9         62316     73265   5518264+  83  Linux
/dev/hda10        73265    104487  15735604+  83  Linux


Notice that  hda2  starts at 1 now, and I have no hda1.  The space 
between 1 and 21070 (where 5 starts) is
free space supposedly. 
Can I use parted to change where hda2 starts without damaging data, and 
then create an hda1 and create
a linux file system on it? Acually, I will probably add it to the LVM 
I'm using under FC2.

Thanks,
Scott