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Chris Mattern  
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 More options May 28, 2:58 pm
Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris
From: Chris Mattern <sys...@sumire.gwu.edu>
Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 13:58:59 -0500
Local: Wed, May 28 2008 2:58 pm
Subject: Re: Fail Creating directory
On 2008-05-15, apogeusiste...@gmail.com <apogeusiste...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi:

> Can you tell me why I cannot create this directory with root id ?

> solaris # mkdir /export/home/john
> mkdir: Failed to make directory "/export/home/john"; Permission denied
> solaris# id
> uid=0(root) gid=0(root)

You can't write to the filesystem.  Either it is mounted read-only or
it's an NFS mount; I'm guessing the latter.

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             Christopher Mattern

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