diff --git a/reform2-imx8mq/mkimage.sh b/reform2-imx8mq/mkimage.sh
index 0145e8cdb8c5effb01879aa40c7ba41d37191aa5..9a4dc0db4ef2498ced4ecbe4a760092d7ca39868 100755
--- a/reform2-imx8mq/mkimage.sh
+++ b/reform2-imx8mq/mkimage.sh
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ mkdir -p target
 
 # change 8000 below to the number of megabytes your image file should have
 if [ ! -f reform-system.img ]; then
-  dd if=/dev/zero of=reform-system.img bs=1M count=0 seek=8000
+  dd if=/dev/zero of=reform-system.img bs=1M count=0 seek=2000
 else
   echo "reform-system.img already exists. Delete it if you want to change the image size."
 fi