How can I recover my external hard drive's free space? [duplicate]

Question

I had these partitions on an external hard drive:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Android                 63.9 GB    disk2s2
   3:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   4:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4

My aim was to delete disk2s2 and then resize disk2s3 to occupy the leftover space by deleting disk2s2. I deleted disk2s2 using this command:

diskutil  erasevolume  "Free Space"  ""  /dev/disk2s2

Now, to resize the volume, I used:

diskutil  resizevolume  /dev/disk2s3  R

However, I got this error:

Started partitioning on disk2s3 RiptideHUP Error: -69743: The new size
must be different than the existing size

I did a bit of research and realised the free space was created before disk2s3 RiptideHUP so it cannot resize itself. Is there still a way I can reclaim the Free Space?

NOTE: Using diskutil list now shows:

/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk2
   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS RiptideHUP              968.0 GB   disk2s3
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data RiptideF                967.8 GB   disk2s4