Partiition goofup

[rusty]

While trying to resize the FAT32 partition on my dual booting ,machine, I think I changed the start of the partition from something grater than zero to zero and now it can't be mounted or booted.

I'm tempted to bring on norton or something like that, or maybe fdisk /mbr on the rescue floppy but I thought I'd give the experts here a workout first

 fsck /dev/hdb1
fsck 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
WARNING: bad format on line 21 of /etc/fstab
dosfsck 2.10, 22 Sep 2003, FAT32, LFN
Logical sector size is zero.
root@toybox:~# fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Disk /dev/hdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      1973  15848091    c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/hdb2          4013      4394   3068415   83  Linux
/dev/hdb3          2612      4012  11253532+  83  Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Linux still works fine, from lilo.

I'll be trying out gpart. In the meantime thanks for any advice.

[rusty]

Here's some output from parted:

(parted) select /dev/hdb
Using /dev/hdb
Information: The operating system thinks the geometry on /dev/hdb is
14593/255/63.  Therefore, cylinder 1024 ends at 8032.499M.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hdb: 0.000-114473.460 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031  15476.682  primary               boot, lba
3      20481.306  31471.083  primary   ext3
2      31471.084  34467.583  primary   ext3
(parted)

Curious why fdisk and parted seem to see things differently. gpart scans, thinks it's finding a ext2 partition then stops reporting a seek error. Hmmmmm