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Subject: Re: newfs error
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Hi Corry,

> 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.

  I don't have an /etc/group file on the CDROM image, but newfs still
works OK. Try copying the /etc/group file from your i386 system into
the exported NFS /etc dir and see if that fixes things.

later,

Peter.