newfs error

[Toru Okumura]

Hi Corry Andrew Lazarowitz,

Many people will comment you about your accident, I think, and
I send my comment for you.
I wish my comment will be useful for your accident.

In UNIX system, all files (inluding executable files) have gid number
if you don't have /etc/group file.

I think "newfs: Cannot retrieve operator gid" means that
newfs have 744 or 700 or anything like that file mode, and
you are not belonging to gid group...
In other words, you should execute newfs command after changing
user to root...

If you have /etc/group file and your user id is written in line of
gid of newfs, you can execute newfs command, but in any other case
you cannot execute newfs command in your machine.

I wish your fine FreeBSD life!!

Toru

>I am relativily new to FreeBSD in comparison to most out there (Been going for about a year and a half now) so this 
may be a dumb question.  I got my brothers Imac booting from my FreeBSD server, and get into single user mode.  When I 
try and newfs /dev/ad0s9 I get a lot of stuff, here's the gist of it
>
>I believe it first prints what it is going to do as far as reading the secotrs, setting a block size, etc.  
>Then it prints out suber-block backups (for fsck -b #) at:
>then it lists a long set of long numbers
>Finially, it says 
>newfs: Cannot retrieve operator gid
>
>I tried searching the internet all over, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, even linux stuff, I couldn't find anything with 
operator gid and newfs.  I am guessing this is probably because of 1 of 2 things:
>1 no one has had this issue before.  Not likely
>2 Its a real simple problem, or I am doing that SHOULD be obviously wrong, but alas, I can't see it.
>
>Any help is appreciated!
>Thanks
>Corry
>