diff --git a/Userland/Services/SystemServer/main.cpp b/Userland/Services/SystemServer/main.cpp
index 6b8c77cba2..98700269d9 100644
--- a/Userland/Services/SystemServer/main.cpp
+++ b/Userland/Services/SystemServer/main.cpp
@@ -386,6 +386,10 @@ static ErrorOr<void> populate_devtmpfs()
 
 static ErrorOr<void> prepare_synthetic_filesystems()
 {
+    // FIXME: Don't hardcode the fs type as the ext2 filesystem and once there's
+    // more than this filesystem implementation (which is suitable for usage on
+    // physical storage), find a way to detect it.
+    TRY(Core::System::mount(-1, "/"sv, "ext2"sv, MS_REMOUNT | MS_NODEV | MS_NOSUID | MS_RDONLY));
     // FIXME: Find a better way to all of this stuff, without hardcoding all of this!
     TRY(Core::System::mount(-1, "/proc"sv, "proc"sv, MS_NOSUID));
     TRY(Core::System::mount(-1, "/sys"sv, "sys"sv, 0));