diff --git a/deploy/workloads/fc-test.json b/deploy/workloads/fc-test.json
index ecc55808..7c6d1f9f 100644
--- a/deploy/workloads/fc-test.json
+++ b/deploy/workloads/fc-test.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "benchmark_name" : "fc-test",
   "common_simulation_outputs" : ["uartlog"],
-  "common_rootfs" : "dummy.ext2",
+  "common_rootfs" : null,
   "workloads" : [
     {
       "name" : "fc-client",
diff --git a/deploy/workloads/fc-test/dummy.ext2 b/deploy/workloads/fc-test/dummy.ext2
deleted file mode 100644
index c5edf04c..00000000
Binary files a/deploy/workloads/fc-test/dummy.ext2 and /dev/null differ