Cannot use mkdir in home directory permission denied Linux Lubuntu

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I am trying to create a directory in my home directory on Linux using the mkdir command  but am getting a  permission denied  error   I have recently installed Lubuntu on my laptop  and have the only user profile on the computer   Here s what happened on my command line   jdub Snowball    cd  home jdub Snowball  home  mkdir bin mkdir  cannot create directory    bin     Permission denied jdub Snowball  home     How do I gain access to this folder   I am trying to write a script and following a tutorial here  http   linuxcommand org wss0010 php  Thanks for your help

User · Answer

you can try writing the command using  sudo       sudo mkdir DirName

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Try running fuser command   root guest2     fuser -mv  home  USER PID ACCESS COMMAND   home  root 2919 f     automount   root guest2     kill -9 2919   autofs service is known to cause this issue   You can use command   service autofs stop  And try again

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As  kirbyfan64sos notes in a comment   home is NOT your home directory  a k a  home folder   The fact that  home is an absolute  literal path that has no user-specific component provides a clue  While  home happens to be the parent directory of all user-specific home directories on Linux-based systems  you shouldn t even rely on that  given that this differs across platforms  for instance  the equivalent directory on macOS is  Users  What all Unix platforms DO have in common are the following ways to navigate to   refer to your home directory   Using cd with NO argument changes to your home dir   i e   makes your home dir  the working directory   e g   cd   changes to home dir  e g     home jdoe       Unquoted   by itself   unquoted    at the start of a path string represents your home dir    a path starting at your home dir   this is referred to as tilde expansion  see man bash   e g   echo     outputs  e g     home jdoe        HOME - as part of either unquoted or preferably a double-quoted string - refers to your home dir  HOME is a predefined  user-specific environment variable   e g   cd  quot  HOME tmp quot    changes to your personal folder for temp  files      Thus  to create the desired folder  you could use  mkdir  quot  HOME bin quot     same as  mkdir   bin  Note that most locations outside your home dir  require superuser  root user  privileges in order to create files or directories - that s why you ran into the Permission denied error

[linux] Cannot use mkdir in home directory: permission denied (Linux Lubuntu)

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