On Sun, 13 Apr 2003, Russell Nash wrote:
> [1.] One line summary of the problem:
>
> when using 'mkdir' to create a directory on an ext3 filesystem, a
> regular file is created instead of the directory.
>
>
> Linux version 2.4.20-gentoo-r1 (root@voyager) (gcc version 3.2.2) #2 Sat
> Apr 5 20:58:27 EST 2003
>
>
> [6.] A small shell script or example program which triggers the
> problem (if possible)
>
> cd
> rm -rf .variable
> mkdir .variable
> cd .variable
>
Russell, mkdir is working fine here (assorted linuxfromscratch
boxen), with what look to be similar versions of the main software. The
command appears to be part of fileutils (or coreutils), maybe you'll do
better asking on the gentoo lists.
Ken
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