diff --git a/bin/disk-image-create b/bin/disk-image-create
index ecc3f490..a2450105 100755
--- a/bin/disk-image-create
+++ b/bin/disk-image-create
@@ -207,15 +207,18 @@ else
   # Rounding down size so that is is a multiple of 64, works around a bug in
   # qemu-img that may occur when compressing raw images that aren't a multiple
   # of 64k. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1180021
-  _NEEDED_SIZE=$(sudo du --block-size=600 -x -s ${TMP_BUILD_DIR}/built | \
-                 awk ' { print $1  - ( $1 % 64) } ')
-  truncate -s${_NEEDED_SIZE}K $TMP_IMAGE_PATH
+  du_size=$(sudo du --block-size=600 -x -s ${TMP_BUILD_DIR}/built |\
+            awk ' { print $1 }')
   if [ "$FS_TYPE" = "ext4" ] ; then
     # Very conservative to handle images being resized a lot
-    # Without -J option specified, default journal size will be set to 32M
-    # and online resize will be failed with error of needs too many credits.
+    # We set journal size to 64M so our journal is large enough when we
+    # perform an FS resize.
     MKFS_OPTS="-i 4096 -J size=64 $MKFS_OPTS"
+    du_size=$(( $du_size + 65536 ))
   fi
+
+  _NEEDED_SIZE=$(echo "$du_size" | awk ' { print $1 + 64 - ( $1 % 64) } ')
+  truncate -s${_NEEDED_SIZE}K $TMP_IMAGE_PATH
 fi
 
 if [ -n "$MAX_ONLINE_RESIZE" ]; then