>> # gzip -d < miniroot-14I.fs.gz | dd of=/dev/rsd0b bs=20b conv=sync

> I think dd mistreats input from a pipe.

I'd phrase it more as "dd is not designed for this" - you really want
something that converts from stream input to blocked output, with
padding.  You can do this with dd ibs=1, but that's grossly
inefficient.

Some versions of dd seem to do this when ibs and obs are used instead
of bs.  But I got fed up with trying to coax dd into doing this on
various systems long ago and wrote catblock for the purpose. :)
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