Unable to delete/resize partition on external drive

[dictoresno]

I have a 2TB external split into two volumes, 1TB each, for external storage. First TB, disk2s2, contains my movies and music. Second volume, disk2s3, contained Time Machine backups. I wanted to resize the drive to the full 2TB for the media. So I deleted the Time Machine TB drive, and was then going to delete the volume. Maybe this was my mistake.

So after deleting it, it turned into an empty 1TB volume called MacOS Recovery or something like that, then it ejected. Now I can't find the drive. Disk Utility won't let me resize the 2TB drive now, saying it completed, but it never resizes. If I try to resize the drive, operation fails citing internal error. Tried some Terminal commands, but nothing worked.

Here is what the diskutil list command spits out. Also tried to enable ownership of disk2 but gave me an error about needing a mount point (Error enountered enabling user/group ownership: A disk with a mount point is required (-69854))

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1

2: Apple_HFS 2 TB Media External 1000.0 GB disk2s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 1.0 TB disk2s3

Can anyone help me recover the full 2TB so I don't need to delete the volume entirely?

The Volume shows here, but how to I mount it to delete it? Is it protected?

 

[dictoresno]

Ok, I was able to get it to work. Had to use terminal to erase the volume manually. After that, I was able to get it to show up in Disk Utility and FINALLY delete the Recovery HD partition.


Steves-iMac:~ steve$ diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ "Recovery HD" /dev/disk2s3

Started erase on disk2s3 Recovery HD

Unmounting disk

Erasing

Initialized /dev/rdisk2s3 as a 931 GB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume

Mounting disk

Finished erase on disk2s3 Recovery HD