e2fsck causing apt-get warnings

[Santanu Chatterjee]

On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 11:33 PM, sktsee <sktsee at tulsaconnect.com> wrote:
> Try "sudo apt-get install --reinstall libgmime-2.0-2"

Thanks. This works. But the thing is I get similar warnings for
more than 200 packages. I can of course write a script to identify
those packages and run your suggested command to reinstall
them. That would be one way to solve this.

I was thinking if there was a way (maybe some option to a dpkg
invocation) that will just repopulate/fix the file(s) that contain the
file list for different installed packages. If at all possible, I would
like to avoid reinstalling all those 200+ packages since they are
otherwise working fine... just dpkg seems to have 'forgotten' what
files they contain.

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?
I tried to google for this but not much useful info could be found that
might help my specific case (maybe I should search more thoroughly)

Regards,
Santanu Chatterjee