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F-ALI
F-ALI
Explorer II
April 18, 2025
Question

File System Check Recommended Message on HA FortiGate 121G After Power Outage

  • April 18, 2025
  • 2 replies
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Dear Team,

I’m using an HA setup with FortiGate 121G devices. After a sudden power outage, I received a notification stating "File System Check Recommended" (please see the attached screenshot).

Although the firewall has restarted and is functioning normally , all policies, routing rules, and services are working as expected and the message still persists.
Additionally, the HA status page is not loading correctly (screenshot also attached).

 

Any suggestions on how to resolve this?


File System Check Recommended.pngHA.png

2 replies

Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
Toshi_Esumi
SuperUser
April 18, 2025

If that happens to us, I would tell all our techs "Please don't reboot it and click Remind me later". They're generally smart enough not to click Reboot. If it's too much annoyance, just reboot the secondary first then swap the HA pairs and reboot the other after hours.

 

Toshi

    F-ALI
    F-ALIAuthor
    Explorer II
    April 19, 2025

    Thank you, Toshi, for your support.

    Yes, that looks good, and I prefer it.

    I’ll give it a try.

    dingjerry_FTNT
    Staff
    dingjerry_FTNT
    Staff
    April 19, 2025

    Hi @F-ALI ,

     

    Please check this article for more details:

     

    https://community.fortinet.com/t5/FortiGate/Technical-Tip-File-System-check-recommended-message/ta-p/192784

      F-ALI
      F-ALIAuthor
      Explorer II
      April 19, 2025

      @dingjerry_FTNTThank you very much for sharing this.

      I’ll take a look at it.

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