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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers What's the problem with the command of mkdir Post 83076 by new_hand on Saturday 10th of September 2005 09:45:54 AM
Old 09-10-2005
What's the problem with the command of mkdir

The message is:
#mkdir /home/ade
mkdir:Failed to make directory "/home/ade",Operation not applicable.

What's the problem? Smilie
 

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MKDIR(1)							   User Commands							  MKDIR(1)

NAME
mkdir - make directories SYNOPSIS
mkdir [OPTION]... DIRECTORY... DESCRIPTION
Create the DIRECTORY(ies), if they do not already exist. Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too. -m, --mode=MODE set file mode (as in chmod), not a=rwx - umask -p, --parents no error if existing, make parent directories as needed -v, --verbose print a message for each created directory -Z set SELinux security context of each created directory to the default type --context[=CTX] like -Z, or if CTX is specified then set the SELinux or SMACK security context to CTX --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report mkdir translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. SEE ALSO
mkdir(2) Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/mkdir> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) mkdir invocation' GNU coreutils 8.28 January 2018 MKDIR(1)
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