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Accidentally divided my disk partition into two...

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...during a botched Linux install (note extra eye-rolling: 🙄🙄🙄🙄). The partition was 64 GB, but now there are two, one is 45 GB and the other is about 20 GB. No earthly idea how I did that. 😕

Friends, please enlighten me as to how to restore them back to one single 64 GB partition, preferably without having to reformat and reinstall OS X.

Thanks! 😎
 
How do I delete a partition? 😕 I installed Linux on the other one, now I can just get rid of the other.
 
That's what I was thinking, but it doesn't:

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"Disk 2" is the partition I want to delete, but it doesn't allow me to. If I select it and press the delete key, DU will act as though it's deleting the partition, but it just sits there with "Preparing to delete volume......." and doesn't do anything. 😕 It's the same when formatted HFS+ or FAT32.
 
I had sorta the same problem when wanting to delete a Linux partition off of my hard drive. I had to go into the partition utility within the install program for the Linux distro (Ubuntu in my case) and delete the partition from there. After that I booted back into OS X and Disk Utility where it showed as unallocated free space and let me resize my OS X partition from there.
 
🙄 Well, I've just decided to go ahead and reformat my drive. Just got done backing everything up...

Thanks anyway guys...😎
 
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