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papapuff
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December 16, 2017
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ask - power error notification

  • December 16, 2017
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hi there,

 

need advice. due to building regulation, we need to shutdown all power in the night, and power on in the morning.

I concern for three things:

1. is it safe for appliance? I mean it will reduce the usage-age or not.

2. how about data/disk inside it. is it safe?

3. every time I power on, shown an error message as attached

 

how to prevent this?

 

thank you.

    2 replies

    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    ede_pfau
    SuperUser
    December 16, 2017

    hi,

     

    uh-oh! You cannot just switch off the power of a FGT with disk. This will wreck the file system, resulting in an error message like posted. In Unix, you would run a 'fsck' to fix this.

     

    The correct handling would be to run this command in the CLI:

    exec shutdown
    You will have to confirm this command interactively by typing 'y'. After some seconds the OS is halted and safe to be switched off.

    And in regard to life expectation: spinning hard disks up and down will shorten their lifespan. In recent FGTs harddisks are replaced by SSDs; these are not affected by power cycles.

    papapuff
    papapuffAuthor
    New Member
    January 23, 2018

    hi Ede

    thank you for your reply.

     

    for current situation, we don't switch off the unit, unless the power down more than UPS can hold it.

    out of topic, is FG60E already use ssd?

     

    thanks.

    emnoc
    emnoc
    New Member
    January 23, 2018

    Okay my input;

     

    In a controlled situation you do what Ede stated but in  real world we can NOT predict power-outages or interruptions. So the  systems will protect it's self with   fsck

     

    Are you worried about a controlled power down or unplanned?

     

    Ken

     

    afilice
    afilice
    New Member
    February 7, 2018

    I have been getting the power interruption message and file system check on various FG's in my organization when doing firmware updates. Happened on 2 different models a 90D going from 5.2.4-5.2.13 and a 100D from 5.2.13-5.4.0. I know this is not an actual power issue but probably something in the reboot command in the firmware update somewhere. I am hoping my disks dont go bad because of it and it is just poor coding. One device was stuck in maintenance mode and had to be powered off via switch.

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