下面的方法可以做你想做的事情，只要确保你检查了mkdir() / mkdirs()的返回值

private void createUserDir(final String dirName) throws IOException {
    final File homeDir = new File(System.getProperty("user.home"));
    final File dir = new File(homeDir, dirName);
    if (!dir.exists() && !dir.mkdirs()) {
        throw new IOException("Unable to create " + dir.getAbsolutePath();
    }
}

public class Test1 {
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
       String path = System.getProperty("user.home");
       File dir=new File(path+"/new folder");
       if(dir.exists()){
           System.out.println("A folder with name 'new folder' is already exist in the path "+path);
       }else{
           dir.mkdir();
       }

    }
}

对于java 7及以上版本:

Path path = Paths.get("/your/path/string");
Files.createDirectories(path);

在创建之前检查目录或文件是否存在似乎是不必要的，from createDirectories javadocs:

Creates a directory by creating all nonexistent parent directories first. Unlike the createDirectory method, an exception is not thrown if the directory could not be created because it already exists. The attrs parameter is optional file-attributes to set atomically when creating the nonexistent directories. Each file attribute is identified by its name. If more than one attribute of the same name is included in the array then all but the last occurrence is ignored. If this method fails, then it may do so after creating some, but not all, of the parent directories.

new File("/path/directory").mkdirs();

这里的“directory”是你想要创建/存在的目录的名称。

如果你想确保它被创建，那么:

final String path = "target/logs/";
final File logsDir = new File(path);
final boolean logsDirCreated = logsDir.mkdir();
if (!logsDirCreated) {
    final boolean logsDirExists = logsDir.exists();
    assertThat(logsDirExists).isTrue();
}

因为mkDir()返回一个布尔值，如果你不使用这个变量，findbugs会为它哭泣。这也不好…

mkDir()只在mkDir()创建时返回true。 如果dir存在，它将返回false，因此要验证您创建的dir，如果mkDir()返回false，则只调用exists()。

assertThat()将检查结果，如果exists()返回false则失败。Ofc您可以使用其他东西来处理未创建的目录。

在Java 7中，您可以使用Files.createDirectories()。

例如:

Files.createDirectories(Paths.get("/path/to/directory"));