I did the same: "tune2fs -j" also on a running system, nothing special in fstab:Now I'm beginning to suspect that my conversion from ext2 to ext3 (tune2fs -j on a running system, and just modifying ext2 to ext3 in fstab) is somehow not correct, or something else which I overlooked? How did you guys (the ones without any ext3 problems) initially get the ext3 root partition in place (was it born as ext3 or converted from ext2?) and anything special one needs to do in fstab?
/dev/hda2 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/Brian