Merge free space back into partition

I was partitioning my external hard drive for time machine and I ended up with extra free space. How do I merge that back into one of the partitions?
See that extra block of 128 GB? How can I add that into the External Storage?

Manipulating the partition table always risks the data on the drive, but you can try the following to expand the partition size:
1. open the Terminal and enter "diskutil list" to get a list of the drive devices and volumes on them, along with their identifiers.
2. Run the following command using the identifier for the External Storage partition (replace "IDENTIFIER" with the identifier string, which will be something like "disk3s2"):
diskutil resizeVolume IDENTIFIER R

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