Change Volume size after partition

I just formatted a drive and partitioned it. I haven't add any data on both of them and I changed my mind about the size of them.
Is it ok to change their sizes in disk utility? or would be better to format them again and repartition?
thanks in adavance

You can repartition the drive. Since there's nothing on the drive repartitioning won't cause any loss of data.

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Changing Volume Size

I partitioned a disk a while back into two volumes. Now I'd like to change the volume size and it will be sort of a pain (though not completely impossible) to erase (temporarily move) the stuff on the disk. Is there a snappy utility where I can do this? I'm just reading help in the Disk Utility and it talks about combining two volumes if i don't mind erasing the stuff on the second volume, but I can't even seem to invoke that option ('partition' seems not to be a choice as help suggests).
Anyway, the second volume has a great deal of empty space and i'd love to balance it more OR just get rid of the second partition and I am hoping not to have to shuffle 100's of Gig of stuff here and there.
Please advise.
Thanks!

dcrisafi wrote:
I partitioned a disk a while back into two volumes. Now I'd like to change the volume size and it will be sort of a pain (though not completely impossible) to erase (temporarily move) the stuff on the disk. Is there a snappy utility where I can do this?
Disk Utility.
I'm just reading help in the Disk Utility and it talks about combining two volumes if i don't mind erasing the stuff on the second volume, but I can't even seem to invoke that option ('partition' seems not to be a choice as help suggests).
you have to select the whole drive (model, not name) to get the partition tab.
Anyway, the second volume has a great deal of empty space and i'd love to balance it more OR just get rid of the second partition and I am hoping not to have to shuffle 100's of Gig of stuff here and there.
Please advise.
Thanks!

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