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External hard drive partitions showing as 2 different disks, can't merge or repartition. I have erased both and want to merge into one.
EDIT: I have Reformatted both partitions to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but still have the same problem.
macOS Mojave Version 10.14.4
Disk Utility doesn't resize FAT or ExFAT partitions on the fly, so you will need to take that drive to a Windows or UNIX computer or use another tool to resize FAT.
If you only have Disk Utility, I would create a dmg of the FAT partition and save it to the main partition.
Then you could delete the FAT partition, resize the HFS partition and recreate the new FAT section to your preference.
At that point you would choose the restore tab to place the contents from the disk image (.dmg file) onto the properly sized, but empty FAT volume.
Note that if you do:
diskutil disableJournal disk1s2
and you get:
An error occurred journaling the file system: The underlying task reported failure on exit (-69860)
the journaling is in fact disabled. The error is bogus. Eject and remount, and you'll see journaling is now off. Does knowing this help you?
Best Answer
In Disk Utility go to the View menu and select
"Show all devices."
That should then show those two partitions under the "parent" physical drive mand allow you to repartition.