"brian m. carlson" <sand...@crustytoothpaste.net> writes:
> 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.
That is why there now is an UUID in /etc/fstab. That wasn't the
question.
Anyway, the answere was that busybox mount does not canonicalize the
device name. Only mount from util-linux does.
MfG
Goswin
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