1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta-fsl-arm/classes/image_types_fsl.bbclass b/meta-fsl-arm/classes/image_types_fsl.bbclass
index d9e292c69..5d213e51a 100644
--- a/meta-fsl-arm/classes/image_types_fsl.bbclass
+++ b/meta-fsl-arm/classes/image_types_fsl.bbclass
@@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ IMAGE_CMD_sdcard () {
         TMP=${WORKDIR}/tmp
         SDCARD=${DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE}/${IMAGE_NAME}.rootfs.sdcard
 
-        dd if=/dev/zero of=${SDCARD} bs=$(expr 1000 \* 1000) count=${SDCARD_SIZE}
+        # Initialize a sparse file
+        dd if=/dev/zero of=${SDCARD} bs=1 count=0 seek=$(expr 1000 \* 1000 \* ${SDCARD_SIZE})
 
         # Create partition table
         parted -s ${SDCARD} mklabel msdos