Resizing without DESTROYING the second partition of a disk I have a disk that was partitioned in two. The first partition was 1.8TB and is called TIME MACHINE. The second one was 1.2 TB and I call it TOSHIBA 1.2TB.

I would like to reduce the first partition to 1.2 TB and increase the second one to 1.8 TB.

I have managed to reduce the first one from 1.8 to 1.2, but disk utility will not let me increase the second one. Notice the gray space below the first partition. How do I increase the lower partition?



The TIME MACHINE partition was originally encrypted but I had to remove the encryption in order to test something. When I type diskutil list on terminal I get this for that disk:

/dev/disk2
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS TIME MACHINE            1.2 TB     disk2s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk2s3
   4:                  Apple_HFS TOSHIBA 1.2TB           1.2 TB     disk2s4


If possible I would like to delete this boot partition (because this is an external disk that I don't use to boot) and increase this toshiba partition to 1.8 TB.
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