What do you think of my idea of trying a dynamic deletion of Rita's two extraneous internal partitions while she's booted into Sierra on her internal?
- In order to delete a partition the DRIVE must be DISMOUNTED
- You CANNOT DISMOUNT THE BOOT DRIVE
- Therefore what you suggest is NOT POSSIBLE
This would work IF we were dealing with APFS Volumes, but instead these are PARTITIONS.
I don't remember exactly when, but unless I"ve lost it altogether, Apple bestowed upon us the ability to delete partitions from the drive into which we're booted, albeit with a strong data loss caveat, sometime back in OS X.
And you even suggested it in one of Rita's threads a while back but rejected the idea because of the potential for data loss.