Why are the Arm images now 5GB?

I just installed FreeBSD 13.2-RC5-amd64.img onto a 4GB SATADOM on MinnowBoardMax.

Code:
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ada0p2    3.4G    1.4G    1.7G    46%    /

Why are the Arm images so big?
 
Can you report what you see with sysutils/ncdu or with any similar tool it doesn't matter. I am genuinely interested in this subject.

EDIT:
Wild guess, but i have my eyes of llvm toolchain.
 
Actually no source tree is installed in the Arm7 GenericSD image or any Arm image for 13.2RC and 14.

It seems like there is an extreme amount of padding. It could easily fit in 4GB.

Code:
Filesystem      Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/da0s2a     4.8G    1.9G    2.5G    43%    /mnt
 
I wonder if it has to do with this new setting I see in /etc/fstab on embedded images:

Code:
#/dev/label/growfs_swap none            swap    sw              0       0


I remastered the armv7 13.2-RC5 image to 4GB for personal use and it is fine.
1.9GB seems to be the install size. So still plenty of padding.
I used GPT instead for partition ease.
 
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