Delete and merge Partition My MacBook's HDD has 2 partitions. One has OS X 10.8 installed, the other one 10.9. I'd like to delete the first partition and merge the free space afterwards to the 2nd partition.

What's the easiest way to do this? Can I use diskutil eraseVolume/mergePartitions?
iPartition

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