diff --git a/contrib/mkimage-arch.sh b/contrib/mkimage-arch.sh
index 216cd7235..382e2f780 100755
--- a/contrib/mkimage-arch.sh
+++ b/contrib/mkimage-arch.sh
@@ -61,6 +61,7 @@ expect <<EOF
 	}
 EOF
 
+arch-chroot $ROOTFS /bin/sh -c 'rm -r /usr/share/man/*'
 arch-chroot $ROOTFS /bin/sh -c "haveged -w 1024; pacman-key --init; pkill haveged; pacman -Rs --noconfirm haveged; pacman-key --populate archlinux; pkill gpg-agent"
 arch-chroot $ROOTFS /bin/sh -c "ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime"
 echo 'en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8' > $ROOTFS/etc/locale.gen