how to create a folder on external sd card

Question

I have pbm in creating a folder on sd card. this is how i did,

adb shell

mkdir /mnt/extSdCard/tmp
mkdir failed for /mnt/extSdCard/tmp, Permission denied

which gives me error like above,

any help regarding the same is appreciated.

I have also tried other command like mkdir /storage/extSdCard/tmp which gives me same error.

-Thanks, Manju

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10633697/how-to-change-permission-of-ddms-file-explorer-sdcard. might help — Raghunandan, Jun 25 '13 at 12:34
able to create folder/files by program but adb shell commands fails !! — Manju, Jun 25 '13 at 13:14

score -1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 12:36

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Do you have an external sdcard?

do ls /mnt/extSdCard

you cannot create file in extSdCard it needs root permissions.
use /sdcard instead

answered Jun 25 '13 at 12:36

blganesh101

external sd card is mounted and very much present on the device, below is the ls command from adb shell to display the contents of sdcard $ ls /storage/extSdCard DevIcon.fil DevLogo.fil LOST.DIR logger – Manju Jun 25 '13 at 12:50
oops i meant `ls -l`. wanted to check the permissions – blganesh101 Jun 25 '13 at 12:50
ls -l on external sd card below, lrwxrwxrwx root root 2013-06-25 14:22 extSdCard -> /storage/ext SdCard – Manju Jun 25 '13 at 12:52
the owner of the file is root. so you cannot be creating a new file in that. – blganesh101 Jun 25 '13 at 12:53
ok, but the permissions to others are rwxrwxrwx. so, i should be still able to create files/folders in it from adb shell right ? – Manju Jun 25 '13 at 13:14
Could you check if sdcard is working fine? And are you able to create files from a file manager? – blganesh101 Jun 25 '13 at 13:29
If it needs root permission how come I can copy on it using Windows Explorer? – Tomáš Zato Mar 17 '16 at 12:22

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 25 '13 at 12:52

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Go to show view in eclipse and open "file explorer" , there you will find mnt/sdcard..and create folder under that.

answered Jun 25 '13 at 12:52

Brinda K

trying to create folder from eclipse still gives me the same error – Manju Jun 25 '13 at 13:13
when you open file explorer, can you see mnt folder or not? – Brinda K Jun 26 '13 at 07:41

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