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

[Roger Leigh]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 10:23:27PM +0800, jidanni at jidanni.org wrote:
> 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% /
> short name.
> $ grep UUID /etc/fstab
> UUID=551e44e1-2cad-42cf-a716-f2e6caf9dc78 / ext3 defaults,commit=333,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1

I would suggest checking what is in /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts.
/etc/mtab was changed to be a symlink to /proc/mounts.  If you
are mounting by UUID, then I think this is to be expected.


Regards,
Roger

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