diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index fafca40421c..b765a210026 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -463,7 +463,7 @@ endif
 # Before 10.2.0 it was 300MB. We must maintain compatibility with older versions so rootfs size cannot exceed 300MB.
 # 'k' and nvidia are not affected by this limitation because there no installation of kubevirt/k3s prior to 10.2.0
 # Even though the partition layout is now unified, let's still check for ROOTFS_MAXSIZE_MB not exceeding 10GB for 'k'
-# and NVIDIA based platforms, and 291MB for x86_64 and other arm64 platforms. That helps in catching image size
+# and NVIDIA based platforms, and 290MB for x86_64 and other arm64 platforms. That helps in catching image size
 # increases earlier than at later stage.
 # We are currently filtering out a few packages from bulk builds since they are not getting published in Docker HUB
 ifeq ($(HV),k)
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ else
         PKGS_$(ZARCH)=$(shell find pkg -maxdepth 1 -type d | grep -Ev "eve|alpine|sources|kube|external-boot-image$$")
         # nvidia platform requires more space
         ifeq (, $(findstring nvidia,$(PLATFORM)))
-            ROOTFS_MAXSIZE_MB=291
+            ROOTFS_MAXSIZE_MB=290
         else
             ROOTFS_MAXSIZE_MB=10240
         endif