diff --git a/container-runtime/stargz-snapshotter/stargz-snapshotter.yaml b/container-runtime/stargz-snapshotter/stargz-snapshotter.yaml
index 9a71832b..ea379cd4 100644
--- a/container-runtime/stargz-snapshotter/stargz-snapshotter.yaml
+++ b/container-runtime/stargz-snapshotter/stargz-snapshotter.yaml
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ container:
   entrypoint: ./containerd-stargz-grpc
   args:
     - --address=/var/run/containerd-stargz-grpc/containerd-stargz-grpc.sock
+    - --root=/var/lib/containerd/io.containerd.snapshotter.v1.stargz
     - --log-level=debug
   security:
     rootfsPropagation: shared