Set allocation units when formatting a USB stick

I have never tried to do this but I guess that what Windows calls “Allocation Units” is really the cluster size? Both mkfs.exfat and mkfs.vfat support the -s option which controls the number of sectors per cluster.

Keep in mind that this is a multiple of sector size so I guess you would take your desired “allocation unit” size and divide it by the sector size to get the correct number to pass here.

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