df reports root fs as by-uuid symlink instead of actual device
Note: I did not create the solution to this issue. I originally found it over at the crunchbang forums so credit goes to them for finding/creating this work around. One thing that I noticed when I upgraded my Debian servers from squeeze to wheezy was that a number of them were reporting the root filesystem in the output of df as the by-uuid symlink (found in /dev/disk/by-uuid) instead of the actual device name. While there isn’t a problem with this in terms of functionality, it was certainly not ideal as it makes the table formatting quite odd when there is a single line much longer than the rest: ...