As last resort, if you are one that lives with usb sticks indipendent hardware duplicators like those from startech.com have a quick format option (almost my old version of it has) further than other useful functionalities.
-Dan Apr 10, 2024 10:34:38 Stuart Henderson <[email protected]>: >> How can I speed the creation of a FAT32 or Ext2 file system up? > > Maybe increasing block size will help. If not, I don't think there's > really much you can do. There's no "quick format" option for newfs_msdos > lile there is on Windows.

