diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 22f5fd29..c2afb8bf 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+livecd-rootfs (2.489) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium
+
+  * Revert to building minimized and not minimimized images with the same
+    ~2.2 GiB size
+
+ -- Balint Reczey <rbalint@ubuntu.com>  Thu, 04 Jan 2018 14:37:51 +0100
+
 livecd-rootfs (2.488) bionic; urgency=medium
 
   * Enable systemd-networkd by default for live-server installs.
diff --git a/live-build/auto/config b/live-build/auto/config
index 4f3304b2..1faf049b 100755
--- a/live-build/auto/config
+++ b/live-build/auto/config
@@ -717,11 +717,6 @@ echo "SUBPROJECT=\"${SUBPROJECT:-}\"" >> config/chroot
 echo "LB_BINARY_HOOKS=\"$BINARY_HOOKS\"" >> config/binary
 echo "BUILDSTAMP=\"$NOW\"" >> config/binary
 echo "SUBPROJECT=\"${SUBPROJECT:-}\"" >> config/binary
-if [ "${SUBPROJECT:-}" = minimized ]; then
-	# try building minimized images in a 1GiB image but still allow overriding
-	# IMAGE_SIZE in lb build
-	echo 'IMAGE_SIZE=${IMAGE_SIZE:-'$((1024*1024*1024))'}' >> config/binary
-fi
 
 case $ARCH+$SUBARCH in
 	armhf+raspi2)