Disk Utility unable to resize partition
I have an external 4 TB drive with two 2 TB partitions, A and B. I want to resize the partitions so that I have one 3 TB partition and one 1 TB partition.
When I try to use the Disk Utility GUI to accomplish this, it shows me I actually have three partitions:
Partition A (2 TB) – "You can not remove the first volume on the disk."
Partition B (2 TB) – "You cannot remove this volume because the previous volume cannot be resized."
Free space (516 MB)
When I try to (in a single action) remove the free space, then remove Partition B, then add a new 1 TB partition and resize Partition A to 3 TB, I get the following error:
"Running operation 1 of 4: Remove “--”…
An internal error has occurred and the disk for one of the specified operations could not be found. This may be a temporary issue, try again.
Operation failed…"
Similarly, when I just try to remove the free space and Partition B, I get the same error (now when "Running operation 1 of 2").
Any suggestions on what I can do? The result of running "diskutil list" with both partitions mounted is shown below. ("Dan's Carbon Copy Clone" is Partition A and "Data Dump" is Partition B, though I am amenable to deleting whichever partition is required as they are currently exact duplicates of each other.) Thanks in advance.
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 920.0 GB disk0s2
3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 80.3 GB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +920.0 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Neutrino 730.4 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 24.0 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 519.0 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 4.3 GB disk1s4
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *4.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Dan's Carbon Copy Clone 2.0 TB disk2s2
3: Apple_CoreStorage Dan's Carbon Copy Clone 2.0 TB disk2s3
4: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk2s4
/dev/disk3 (external, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Data Dump +2.0 TB disk3
Logical Volume on disk2s3
[disk ID]
Unlocked Encrypted
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