Jason Pyeron wrote: > This happened a few times now, I (soft) reboot and do the fsck thing and all is > fine until it happens again. > A) your USB key is flakey B) your systems USB ports are flakey C) the cabling between the mainboard and the USB port is flakey. I've run into C) quite a lot, where front panel USB ports don't work reliably at USB2.0 speeds when doing large and/or complex operations. I suspect the internal wiring is inadequate for the task.