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I just started playing with NOOBS and a question came to my mind. I installed Raspbian, OpenELEC and OSMC on the same SD.

The config didn't ask how I wanted to split the memory for the three OSs and now I wonder if I can give more space to one of those OSs ( OSMC namely )

Jacobm001
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A way to resize the different partitions on the NOOBS sd card is to use a different sd card and reformat it with the sizes you wish (with limits) and copy the different filesystems in the partitions to the new sd card. As a guide see the procedures in How can I backup my whole SD to an img file usable with Etcher to restore later?.

bstipe
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The NOOBS image is designed to get new users up and running quickly to play with different OS environments but it is extremely limited has no built-in ability to resize partitions. Once you have decided on a preferred OS, longer term, you really should consider migrated away from NOOBS and make a dedicated OS install for your preferred OS. NOOBS "wastes" a lot of space with the other OSes that you ultimately won't use.

As suggested by @nsilent22, I have had some success resizing partitions with gparted which I access using a Ubuntu virtual machine on my Windowz machine.

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