Repartition HFS+ drive

I keep getting an error when attempting to resize the partition on my external Western Digital My Book hard drive which is formatted as Mac OS Extended (HFS+). I'm trying to split the single partition into two equal partitions so as two keep one strictly for Time Machine. Though the error stops Disk Utility from resizing the partition into two as it wants it to be Mac OS Extended which the partition already is and the new partition is set to also be. Has anyone else experienced this?

Resolved this issue using a third party application called iPartition which is supported on OS X Leopard.

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** /dev/dsk/c0t2d0s0
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