[BSDfan666]

(EDIT: Someone trolled this topic, it was cleaned up by moderators.)

That is called a forum signature, the fsck tool is not a filesystem defragmentor.. an improperly unmounted filesystem is left in an inconsistent state and isn't marked as "safe" to mount the next time.

The ext3 filesystem is mostly compatible except for the addition of journaling and some other features, but not completely, the fsck_ext2fs(8) tool is probably only safely usable on ext2 filesystems.. even then this is a foreign filesystem.

Many of us are aware of your previous antics on the OpenBSD mailing list "bsdmaster", it's hardly productive.

The OP has lost files, certainly it's not his fault.. but he could have forced mounted this alien filesystem read-only instead of risking fsck, and in non-interactive, and not entirely comprehending the error messages he was seeing.