One of the main reasons for partitioning these days is to set up a Bootcamp partition for running Windows or another operating system on your machine. Regardless of your approach, please back up your data before touching the partition table of your drive. Even though live partitioning has advanced and is supported by Disk Utility, we still strongly recommend you at least back up your data before altering the partition scheme of your drives, and consider starting the partition scheme over from scratch if possible to prevent loss of data and disk problems if things go wrong. Therefore the general suggestions were to avoid this for important data and set up a new partition table from scratch if you wanted to resize. For Windows users, one of the first utilities that supported live partitioning, called "Partition Magic", seemed to primarily work with a little luck and failure meant a lost volume and all the data on it.
In the past, partitions were relatively static and resizing them was more of a hack than something routinely done. The disk management tool Disk Utility, which comes with OS X, contains most of the tools necessary for managing partition of drives. There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition.
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