diff --git a/risc_v/src/fs.rs b/risc_v/src/fs.rs
index 7d22c8c..1525ff5 100755
--- a/risc_v/src/fs.rs
+++ b/risc_v/src/fs.rs
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ impl MinixFileSystem {
 	/// The goal of open is to traverse the path given by path. If we cache the inodes
 	/// in RAM, it might make this much quicker. For now, this doesn't do anything since
 	/// we're just testing read based on if we know the Inode we're looking for.
-	pub fn open(bdev: usize,  path: &String) -> Result<Inode, FsError> {
+	pub fn open(bdev: usize,  path: &str) -> Result<Inode, FsError> {
 		if let Some(cache) = unsafe { MFS_INODE_CACHE[bdev-1].take() } {
 			let ret;
 			if let Some(inode) = cache.get(path) {
diff --git a/risc_v/src/test.rs b/risc_v/src/test.rs
index 5347fc0..30e5030 100644
--- a/risc_v/src/test.rs
+++ b/risc_v/src/test.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@ use crate::{elf,
 			fs::MinixFileSystem,
             process::{PROCESS_LIST,
 					  PROCESS_LIST_MUTEX}};
-use alloc::string::String;
 
 /// Test block will load raw binaries into memory to execute them. This function
 /// will load ELF files and try to execute them.
@@ -15,7 +14,7 @@ pub fn test() {
 	// This could be better. We should see what our probe gave us, and it if is
 	// a block device, init the filesystem.
 	MinixFileSystem::init(BDEV);
-	let file_to_read = String::from("/helloworld.elf");
+	let file_to_read = "/helloworld.elf";
 	let desc = MinixFileSystem::open(BDEV, &file_to_read).ok();
 	if desc.is_none() {
 		println!("Error reading {}", file_to_read);