diff --git a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/node-exporter/node-exporter.libsonnet b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/node-exporter/node-exporter.libsonnet
index d7f77bf9f85f2c87294461a01c6e6dc63e611c9a..69025a59da8995ba733c336200225abb3076b931 100644
--- a/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/node-exporter/node-exporter.libsonnet
+++ b/jsonnet/kube-prometheus/node-exporter/node-exporter.libsonnet
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ local k = import 'ksonnet/ksonnet.beta.3/k.libsonnet';
           '--web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:' + $._config.nodeExporter.port,
           '--path.procfs=/host/proc',
           '--path.sysfs=/host/sys',
+          '--path.rootfs=/host/root',
 
           // The following settings have been taken from
           // https://github.com/prometheus/node_exporter/blob/0662673/collector/filesystem_linux.go#L30-L31
diff --git a/manifests/node-exporter-daemonset.yaml b/manifests/node-exporter-daemonset.yaml
index 28d424b8287035d94632dd11ecc01ccf2e01dc3f..6717bc9037ce6b45bbaaf222cf3a46f3a4d5a847 100644
--- a/manifests/node-exporter-daemonset.yaml
+++ b/manifests/node-exporter-daemonset.yaml
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ spec:
         - --web.listen-address=127.0.0.1:9100
         - --path.procfs=/host/proc
         - --path.sysfs=/host/sys
+        - --path.rootfs=/host/root
         - --collector.filesystem.ignored-mount-points=^/(dev|proc|sys|var/lib/docker/.+)($|/)
         - --collector.filesystem.ignored-fs-types=^(autofs|binfmt_misc|cgroup|configfs|debugfs|devpts|devtmpfs|fusectl|hugetlbfs|mqueue|overlay|proc|procfs|pstore|rpc_pipefs|securityfs|sysfs|tracefs)$
         image: quay.io/prometheus/node-exporter:v0.16.0