diff --git a/configs/raspberrypi_defconfig b/configs/raspberrypi_defconfig
index 1ebcee6cab..e6c42a837a 100644
--- a/configs/raspberrypi_defconfig
+++ b/configs/raspberrypi_defconfig
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_MTOOLS=y
 # Filesystem / image
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_4=y
+BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_EXT2_SIZE="120M"
 # BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_TAR is not set
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_BUILD_SCRIPT="board/raspberrypi/post-build.sh"
 BR2_ROOTFS_POST_IMAGE_SCRIPT="board/raspberrypi/post-image.sh"