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Learning Git - Permission denied while creating a directory

I am absolutely new to Git and the concept of it. I am going through a git immersion here: http://gitimmersion.com/lab_03.html I am creating a directory called hello by using the command 

mkdir hello

However, I get this error enter image description here

I'm not sure what to do here.. why am I getting permission denied? Again, sorry if this is a very basic question but I am completely new to this. I have tried googling it but the results seem to be a lot more complicated than what I am just trying to accomplish here.

Solution

  • It looks like you are trying to make a directory in the "root" directory, as I see your current working directory is /. This probably isn't where you want to create any files or folders, it's just something added by your terminal-emulator to give you a "bash"-like (linux) environment.

    To get to one of your Windows drives, for example C, use cd /c. You can see where you currently are with pwd.

    Also see: