parted under RHEL and FC2 - does it work?

["Chiu, PCM (Peter) " <P C M Chiu rl ac uk>]

I have just received a delivery of a dual opteron 248 box with 16GB memory.

The system is prebuilt with RHEL 3 on an internal 250GB IDE disk.

It has three partitions a: /boot 20MB, b: swap 32GB and c: 240GB /

I would like to shrink the hdc using parted but hit the same problem
using the RHEL 3-2 and FC2 installation CDs.

Having booted off the rescue mode, parted resize command fails with the
message:

   "No implementation. This ext2 filesystem has a rather strange layout.
    Parted can't resize this (yet)."

The parted Print command reveals:
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-238418.579 megabytes
Minor   Start  End       Type    FS   Flags
1       0.031  125.507   primary ext3 boot
2     125.508  32122.155 primary linux-swap
3   32122.155 238402.089 primary ext3

I don't anything unusual about this.

So could it be parted not supporting resizing in general, or just specific
to my ext3 file system on a 200GB partition?