e2fsck causing apt-get warnings

[Santanu Chatterjee]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:29 AM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
>> Another thing I noticed was that there are several files named like
>> #35754, #35854, #36747, #766145, etc. in /lost+found directory.
>> Probably they have something to do with the root partition check with
>> e2fsck. Is there something that can be done with these files here?
>
> Not safely.  You've had a serious problem with your drive - and I wouldn't
> rule out that it's ongoing, and that you're at imminent risk of drive
> failure - and you want to stick a bandage on it and continue.

First of all, thanks for your suggestions.

Yeah. I guess I might have to get a new HDD sooner than I thought :-(
Just finished backing up important files.

>
> To avoid actually downloading anything, you could start by doing:
>
> # sudo dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/*.deb

Tried that. Some of the more recent .deb files were installed. Others were
not there (probably because of a recent apt-get clean).

At the moment, it seems that I have only two options:
1. Reinstall the packages giving warnings, OR
2. Suffer the warning messages, until some error comes up... and
     keep backing up important stuff at regular intervals till the drive
     fails completely...

At the moment <2> seems like a good option to me :-)

Regards,
Santanu Chatterjee