Empty partition

[buiax]

I want the partition created and empty with size 5.5G, but I don't want the image to grow because it is empty,

Its for ext4.

How do I configure this?

[michaelolbrich]

Are you using a GPT or MBR partition table?

For GPT by default there is a copy of the partition table at the end of the image (that's how the spec defines it). So the image will grow. You can disable that with the gpt-no-backup option in the hdimage section.