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Title: How to consult FAT32 cluster size on Ubuntu
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Simply use the ll command and the size of directories will be your block size (cluster size in Windows speak):

$ ll /
total 40972
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root     4096 Apr  8 16:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x  25 root root     4096 Apr  8 16:30 ../
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root     4096 Mar 31 16:44 bin/
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root     4096 Apr  8 16:32 boot/
drwxrwxr-x   2 root root     4096 Aug  2  2018 cdrom/

My block size is 4,096 (4K) which is normal for an ext4 Linux file system. In your case it will be 64K and even a file of 1 byte will take 64K bytes on disk.

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