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I recently purchased a 120gb SSD to put in my mac mini. In preparation for this, I created a second partition on my drive as a data drive where I will store things in order to make a time machine backup with the 120gb drive. Everything went as planned, except now, I cannot expand my data partition to use the whole disk. Below is a screen capture of what I'm talking about: 

To accomplish putting my OS on only 120GB of hard drive, I've made symbolic links for most of the folders in my ~/ folder

This is what the ~/ Folder looks like on my Macintosh HD partition

 This is where these files are actually located

As far as I can gather, the only way I can combine these partitions now is to re-format the entire drive, which as you can see would cause me many problems. How to expand a partition "upwards" for lack of a better term? I'm fairly new to Mac.

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