Debian Wheezy (testing) df reported volume size
- by TheRoadrunner
I am a bit confused about the /dev/sda* references since I installed Wheezy instead of Squeeze on a testing box.
fdisk -l returns:
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000e9623
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 480278527 240138240 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 480280574 488396799 4058113 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 480280576 488396799 4058112 82 Linux swap / Solaris
This seems correct. But df -h /dev/sda (and /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda5) returns:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
The same happens with every entry under /dev/disk/by-id and /dev/disk/by-path.
Only one of two entries under /dev/disk/by-uuid returns the correct volume size:
df -h /dev/disk/by-uuid/cacdbad6-7e6b-4e80-84ba-e3c77ef48796
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/disk/by-uuid/cacdbad6-7e6b-4e80-84ba-e3c77ef48796 229G 22G 196G 11% /
Contents of /etc/fstab:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=cacdbad6-7e6b-4e80-84ba-e3c77ef48796 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=45840d13-ee36-4e77-8e73-16cbdff25eb1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
It seems all other references than the uuid points to the swap partition.
Is this because Wheezy is in testing, and should it be reported as an error?
