Creating a default Cover Flow size

Hi
In Finder, one can change the default for column widths in column view, for example... so my question is: how does one change the default depth for the Cover Flow view... it seems to default to about four fifths the height of the finder window which on my high res screen is unnecessarily and disturbingly big.
I've tried the usual commands and they don't seem to work.. they either don't or I'm just disorientated. Hoping it's the latter.
Thanks for your help.

Hi Baltwo
It wasn't behaving that way with me. When I dragged the horizontal bar up, only that window changed. Closing and opening new windows, they reverted to the huge proportion.
However... playing about with this... I've found that it seems to work this way for me:
Dragging the horizontal bar down creates a new default size BIGGER.
Resizing a window using the bottom right corner re-size tab shrinks the pane and creates a new default size SMALLER.
Yeah... can kinda see a logic, though I was hoping for a nice consistent cmd+alt drag on horizontal bar sets new default (same as column view). I had no luck with that, didn't work.
Thanks for taking the time to suggest something.. cheers.
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