problem with creating new partition from free space from partition resize

[Brandon Simmons]

Hi,
I have shrunk an ext3 partition so that I have a few gigs of free
space between 1 & 2 which I would like to partition (in v1.6.15):

/----------------------\
Using /dev/hda
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-38154.375 megabytes
Disk label type: msdos
Minor    Start       End     Type      Filesystem  Flags
1          0.031  25815.388  primary   ext3        boot
2      32812.449  33840.043  primary   linux-swap
3      33840.044  33942.019  primary   ext3
4      33942.019  38154.375  extended
5      33942.050  38154.375  logical               lvm
\----------------------/

However when I run:

(parted) mkpart logical ext3 25816 32812

parted claims the best it can do is some minuscule amount between
partitions two and three (I can get the exact message if you need it).
On my debian boot I am running the latest version 1.6.25.1 and this is
what I get with that:

/--------------------\
Using /dev/hda
(parted) mkpart logical 25817 32811
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
(parted) print
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0kB - 40GB
Disk label type: msdos
Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
1       32kB    27GB    27GB    primary   ext3         boot
2       34GB    35GB    1078MB  primary   linux-swap
3       35GB    36GB    107MB   primary   ext3
4       36GB    40GB    4417MB  extended
5       36GB    40GB    4417MB  logical                lvm
(parted) mkpart logical 27GB 34GB
Error: Can't have overlapping partitions.
\--------------------------/

Am I missing something? I thought that I was basically trying to do
what is described in the manual entry here:

http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/html_mono/parted.html#SEC31

Thanks,
Brandon