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NAME
       full - always full device

CONFIGURATION
       If your system does not have /dev/full created already, it can be created with the following commands:

               mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7
               chown root:root /dev/full

DESCRIPTION
       File /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7.

       Writes  to the /dev/full device will fail with an ENOSPC error.  This can be used to test how a program handles disk-full
       errors.

       Reads from the /dev/full device will return \0 characters.

       Seeks on /dev/full will always succeed.

FILES
       /dev/full

SEE ALSO
       mknod(1), null(4), zero(4)

COLOPHON
       This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project.  A description of the project,  and  information  about
       reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.



Linux                                                      2007-11-24                                                    FULL(4)