diff --git a/snapshots/btrfs/btrfs_test.go b/snapshots/btrfs/btrfs_test.go
index 3ab1927d0..99e5e0726 100644
--- a/snapshots/btrfs/btrfs_test.go
+++ b/snapshots/btrfs/btrfs_test.go
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ func boltSnapshotter(t *testing.T) func(context.Context, string) (snapshots.Snap
 
 	return func(ctx context.Context, root string) (snapshots.Snapshotter, func() error, error) {
 
-		deviceName, cleanupDevice, err := testutil.NewLoopback(650 << 20) // 650 MB
+		loopbackSize := int64(100 << 20) // 100 MB
+		// mkfs.btrfs creates a fs which has a blocksize equal to the system default pagesize. If that pagesize
+		// is > 4KB, mounting the fs will fail unless we increase the size of the file used by mkfs.btrfs
+		if os.Getpagesize() > 4096 {
+			loopbackSize = int64(650 << 20) // 650 MB
+		}
+		deviceName, cleanupDevice, err := testutil.NewLoopback(loopbackSize)
+
 		if err != nil {
 			return nil, nil, err
 		}