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You could try first to convert it to a 'normal' Mac volume by doing the following in Terminal.

app

diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ Blank /dev/<disknumer eg: disk0s3>

Then try deleting it in the GUI normal DiskUtility program. If you still cannot delete then try also doing the following.

First expand the Macintosh HD partition to use all the empty space. This will not destroy any data.
Then back in Terminal.app try the following

diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s3 disk0s6

Note: Instead of disk0s3 use whatever corresponds to your existing Macintosh HD partition. Macintosh HD needs to be
a Journaled HFS+ volume. You can use the following to list all the partitions.

diskutil list

The following is what the 'manual' for DiskUtility says

mergePartitions [force] format name fromDevice toDevice


Merge two or more partitions on a disk. All data on merged
partitions other than the first will be lost. Data on the
first partition will be lost as well if the force argument is
given.

If force is not given, and the first partition has a resizable


file system (e.g. JHFS+), the file system will be preserved
and grown in a data-preserving manner; your format and name
parameters are ignored in this case. If force is not given,
and the first partition is not resizable, you are prompted if
you want to format. You will also be prompted to format if
the first partition has an (HFS) Allocation Block Size which
is too small to support the required growth of the first par-
tition; see the -b option for newfs_hfs (8).

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