diff --git a/errors.go b/errors.go
index b51b173c..6c28ff00 100644
--- a/errors.go
+++ b/errors.go
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ var configSecretErr = errors.New("secretkey is mandatory")
 var missingAccessSecretErr = errors.New("You can configure your credentials by running `mc configure`")
 var missingAccessErr = errors.New("Partial credentials found in the env, missing : AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID")
 var missingSecretErr = errors.New("Partial credentials found in the env, missing : AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY")
+var invalidBucketErr = errors.New("Invalid bucket name")
diff --git a/fs-mkdir.go b/fs-mkdir.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8cbd9ff4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fs-mkdir.go
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+/*
+ * Mini Object Storage, (C) 2014,2015 Minio, Inc.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/codegangsta/cli"
+	"github.com/minio-io/mc/pkg/s3"
+)
+
+func doFsMkdir(c *cli.Context) {
+	switch len(c.Args()) {
+	case 1:
+		if !s3.IsValidBucket(c.Args().Get(0)) {
+			log.Fatal(invalidBucketErr)
+		}
+	default:
+		log.Fatal()
+	}
+	bucketName := c.Args().Get(0)
+	var err error
+	var auth *s3.Auth
+	auth, err = getAWSEnvironment()
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	s3c := s3.NewS3Client(auth)
+	err = s3c.PutBucket(bucketName)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatal(err)
+	}
+}
diff --git a/fs-options.go b/fs-options.go
index 86b6f6a3..9df2dde1 100644
--- a/fs-options.go
+++ b/fs-options.go
@@ -56,8 +56,5 @@ type fsOptions struct {
 	isput  bool
 }
 
-func doFsMkdir(c *cli.Context) {
-}
-
 func doFsSync(c *cli.Context) {
 }
diff --git a/pkg/s3/client.go b/pkg/s3/client.go
index 016e53e8..dde4b9b4 100644
--- a/pkg/s3/client.go
+++ b/pkg/s3/client.go
@@ -127,6 +127,26 @@ func (c *Client) Stat(key, bucket string) (size int64, reterr error) {
 	return 0, fmt.Errorf("s3: Unexpected status code %d statting object %v", res.StatusCode, key)
 }
 
+func (c *Client) PutBucket(bucket string) error {
+	req := newReq(c.bucketURL(bucket))
+	req.Method = "PUT"
+	c.Auth.SignRequest(req)
+	res, err := c.transport().RoundTrip(req)
+	if res != nil && res.Body != nil {
+		defer res.Body.Close()
+	}
+
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if res.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		// res.Write(os.Stderr)
+		return fmt.Errorf("Got response code %d from s3", res.StatusCode)
+	}
+	return nil
+
+}
+
 func (c *Client) Put(bucket, key string, md5 hash.Hash, size int64, body io.Reader) error {
 	req := newReq(c.keyURL(bucket, key))
 	req.Method = "PUT"