[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#653073: why root filesystem reported as /dev/disk/by-uuid/ long name starting today?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

X-debbugs-Cc: rleigh at debian.org
Package: initscripts
Version: 2.88dsf-16

I have little idea of which package causes
$ { df; mount;}|grep disk
/dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78   1071468  287800    729240  29% /
/dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78 on / type ext3 (rw,noatime,errors=remount-ro,commit=333,barrier=1,data=ordered)
to thus report the root file system, instead of its
$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 12-23 22:00 /dev/disk/by-uuid/551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78 -> ../../sda11
short name.
$ grep UUID /etc/fstab
UUID=551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78 / ext3 defaults,commit=333,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
UUID=355d426a-cbfc-4faf-91d6-4f9405199517 /home ext3 defaults,commit=333,noatime 0 2
UUID=34610b6a-70a3-48d9-b135-96907dc2ba16 /var ext3 defaults,commit=333,noatime 0 2
UUID=1d11e0e3-26d7-42be-89d2-00fbe939dc1c /usr ext3 defaults,commit=333,noatime 0 2
shows that the others are UUIDs in /etc/fstab but don't become ugly as
such when reported by mount or df.