Disk Utility won't let me delete the partition disk

can some body help me for that ...?

What specific steps have you tried so far. Is your disk full (with only a few GB left on it)? When you go to Disk Utility, are you selecting your drive device (above the listed volumes) or are you selecting your boot volume or other volumes in an attempt to split them up?

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