The df output has two distinct problems, which will have separate solutions.
Regarding the duplicate rootfs entry, I had thought (from d-i) that it
was possible to use pivot_root and then umount the initrd afterwards.
However, hpa tells me that the rootfs is the cwd for kernel threads so
cannot be unmounted. It might also be used as the hardcoded head of the
linked list of active mounts, if they haven't found a better data
structure yet in the kernel.. :P
So this seems to be a limitation of linux, and short of going back to a
/etc/mtab file, df needs to be fixed to either paper over the problem
with a special case exclude of the rootfs, or take one of the general
purpose approaches for hiding non-available filesystems that have been
discussed. Or violate the least surprise of every user who looks at df
and sees two root filesystems, but I personally don't think that is a
good option.
Regarding the ugly uuid display, a recent release of coreutils actually
made this worse. It used to wrap long device paths:
tmpfs 200M 340K 200M 1% /run/shm
/dev/disk/by-uuid/6a7e9145-b76d-4bcf-a243-67c65891549a
29G 27G 2.0G 93% /
But that's not really a fix, and was removed due to it breaking naive
scripts that did not use df -P.
The proper fix is to make klibc-utils's mount (and perhaps also
busybox's), do the same path canonicalization that /bin/mount does.
That canonicalization is why mounting by uuid does not normally cause
the problem:
joey@gnu:~>sudo mount /dev/disk/by-uuid/e55f93bc-53ce-4111-af1e-8feb07759362
/mnt
joey@gnu:~>df /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 917G 737G 181G 81% /mnt
joey@gnu:~>sudo umount /mnt
joey@gnu:~>sudo mount --no-canonicalize
/dev/disk/by-uuid/e55f93bc-53ce-4111-af1e-8feb07759362 /mnt
joey@gnu:~>df /mnt
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%
Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-uuid/e55f93bc-53ce-4111-af1e-8feb07759362 917G 737G 181G 81%
/mnt
If klibc-utils somehow cannot be fixed, the only other option would be to
make df try to canonicalize paths, but that would be problimatic to get
right (imagine running df in a chroot without /dev etc). Also, it would
not fix anything else that displays mounted devices, such as perhaps GUI
programs.
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