diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy_ext2_img.yml b/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy_ext2_img.yml
index 96b0e01..7d26cf9 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy_ext2_img.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_and_deploy_ext2_img.yml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ on:
         type: string
         description: 'Size of the base ext2 image. 950GB is the max size for Github pages, 2GB for Github release. Refer to the fallocate(1) manpage for multiplicative suffixes'
         required: true
-        default: '950MB'
+        default: '600MB'
 
       IMAGE_NAME:
         type: string