Recently installed 11.04 version of ubuntu. Wanted to create a folder in the root of the fileSystem, but the persmission was denied. Tried with chown and chmod but no result.
Kindly assist me
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You have to be root to be able to create a directory in /.
So if you have sudo installed you can just type sudo mkdir /<yourdir> and change the permissions afterwards with e.g. sudo chown $USER:$USER /<yourdir>. If you don't have sudo installed you have to login as root (type su in a terminal) and execute the commands without the preceding sudo.
If I understood you correctly you tried a to change the ownership of the root file system. Don't do that!
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1You can assume sudo to be installed since we all use Ubuntu ;) – Rinzwind May 09 '12 at 06:46