Ubuntu unity

This solution may be very situational to me, but i added a sleep command to my crontab file to give the computer more time, and it miraculously worked no reason it shouldn't have worked without...

It is a little bit time consuming, but it can be done if:

Assuming /dev/sdb1, and that the unallocated space is bigger than the amount of data from /dev/sdb1:

Or simply do:

ls -b |nl -s '. ' -w 1
1. a file with nonewline
2. a file with
newline
3. a file with space
4. afile

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