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From: Joseph <syscon780@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] making bootable USB
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On 09/01/14 09:02, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>On Monday 01 September 2014 00:48:25 Joseph wrote:
>
>> In my case I was doing as root:
>> dd if=/home/joseph/Downloads/install-amd64-minimal-20140529.iso of=/dev/sda
>> bs=4096 sync
>
>If your USB stick is /dev/sda, what device is your root partition?
>
>-- 
>Regards
>Peter

Root is on hda3 (it is an old box).

df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda3        28G   19G  7.3G  73% /
/dev/hda4        84G   57G   24G  71% /home

-- 
Joseph