Re: mkdir problem

[Frank Elsner]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2020 10:52:27 +0000 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-11-02 at 11:50 +0100, Frank Elsner via users wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need help as I don't understand my problem.
> >
> > I've a local directory
> >
> > [root@siffux misc]# ls -la
> > total 4
> > drwxr-xr-x   3 root root    0 Nov  2 09:54 .
> > dr-xr-xr-x. 21 root root 4096 Jul  7 13:28 ..
> > drwxr-xr-x   2 root root    0 Nov  2 09:54 Media
> >
> > I don't understand
> >
> > [root@siffux misc]# mkdir Backups
> > mkdir: cannot create directory ‘Backups’: Permission denied
>
> Is the filesystem mounted read-only?

No, problem solved. It was the running autofs.

--Frank