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Old 3rd December 2015
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Originally Posted by alex_b83 View Post
Is the size of dd output file always a multiple of bs?
If you add conv=sync:

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Pad every input block to the size of the ibs= buffer, appending null bytes. (If either block or unblock is also specified, append <space> characters, rather than null bytes.)
This is in POSIX so it can be reasonably expected to work on most platforms.
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