unable to create any directory that uses numbers as the directory name

[Madan Thapa]

All was working fine.. this issue came to notice yesterday. Anybody had such
experience and any fix please?





On 9/20/07, Bill Tangren <bjt at usno.navy.mil> wrote:
>
> Madan Thapa wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> > unable to create any directory that uses numbers as the directory name
> >
> >
> > root at server [~]# mkdir 123
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `123': No such file or directory
> > root at server [~]# mkdir 0
> > mkdir: cannot create directory `0': No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > Filesystem is not in readonly mode becasue I can create dir with a mix
> of
> > numbers and aplhabets.
> >
> > root at server [~]# mkdir 1ab
> > root at server [~]#
> >
> >
> > Please advise.
>
> [root at mach2 ~]# mkdir 123
> [root at mach2 ~]# ls -ld 123
> drwx------  2 root root 4096 Sep 20 09:09 123
> [root at mach2 ~]#
>
> I can. Not sure why you cannot.
>
>
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