deleting and resizing ext2 partitions

[Tilman Sauerbeck]

Hi all,
I still have some questions about parted, even after reading the
documentation :)

Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-14655.867 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031      7.844  primary   ext2        boot
2          7.844    196.105  primary   linux-swap  
3        196.106    290.236  primary   ext2        
4        290.237  14653.037  extended              
5        290.268    478.498  logical   ext2        
6        478.529   2863.146  logical   ext2        
7       2863.178  14653.037  logical   ext2

I want to do the following:
delete partition 1. This was my /boot partition, but I updated to a
recent version of LILO so I don't need a separate /boot partition
anymore.

I'd like to add the free space resulting from this to my swap partition.

As a third step, I want to shrink partition 6 or 7 and also add the
resulting free space to the swap partition.

I am not sure whether this is possible, please comment on this. IMHO it
would be great if there was another parted HOWTO or more examples...

One final question:
parted doesn't get the C/H/S values for my disk right, i.e. the values
are not the same like the ones the BIOS shows me. The values from the
BIOS seem to make more sense to me, so I should append
"hda=right-values" to my boot parameters, right?

Thanks in advance,
        Tilman