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

[F-ALI]

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?

[Toshi_Esumi]

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]

Thank you, Toshi, for your support.

Yes, that looks good, and I prefer it.

I’ll give it a try.

[dingjerry_FTNT]

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...

[F-ALI]

@dingjerry_FTNTThank you very much for sharing this.

I’ll take a look at it.