On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:05:58PM +0100, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > jida...@jidanni.org writes: > > > Forty years of pleasant df(1) and mount(1) reading shattered in one day, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=653073 > > Any update on why the root filesystem is listed by UUID? Is that a > problem of busybox mount reporting the long device name to the kernel > why real mount uses the short one?
It's due to the libata transition. Since drives that might formerly have been hd? are now sd?, there was a debconf question to ask to convert them all into UUIDs. Then it doesn't matter which driver (ide or libata or something else entirely) is being used. -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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