Monday, January 20, 2014

df showing ugly uuid for root device

I found that after upgrading debian to wheezy the df command was showing a long name for the root device instead of the real normal short name like /dev/sda1.

/dev/disk/by-uuid/4661950b-0d92-4a1d-9919-2b71eaa14189

I found this link very helpful in explaining the problem and giving a workaround.