My Hard Drive's Split...

Ok, I have two volumes on my Macbook; one is the main drive, which is 265.9 GB, and the other is one left over from when I tried to install ubuntu, which is 30.0 GB. I cannot merge this partition back to my main volume, and this disturbs me! I've tried Disk Utility and Terminal, but I am either doing it wrong or it's not working. PLEASE help me.

Bucmeister wrote:
Well, I did what it said. I tried to delete the partition, but it stayed where it was. Frustrated, I went to its icon in the Finder then ejected it. This worked, but how do I get my free space back?
Are you following the steps in the link provided? If so, exactly where did things go wrong? What didn't happen, or what message did you get?
Is the partition now gone from the diagram, as in the last sample in the green box?
If so, as shown in the blue box, just pull the lower right corner of the remaining partition down to fill the space.

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