I recently noticed my updated debian install (7.4 Wheezy) was displaying the root file system as /dev/disk/by-uuid/aa89d2a0-12cc-4378-b3be-7788999529a2 instead of by device and partition ID (/dev/sda3 in my case)
I found this solution at
http://blog.mbentley.net/2013/09/df-reports-root-fs-as-by-uuid-symlink-instead-of-actual-device/
Which references a solution at
http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=25901
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