1FULL(4)                    Linux Programmer's Manual                   FULL(4)
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NAME

6       full - always full device
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CONFIGURATION

9       If  your system does not have /dev/full created already, it can be cre‐
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13               chown root:root /dev/full
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DESCRIPTION

16       File /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7.
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18       Writes to the /dev/full device will fail with an  ENOSPC  error.   This
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21       Reads from the /dev/full device will return \0 characters.
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23       Seeks on /dev/full will always succeed.
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FILES

26       /dev/full
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SEE ALSO

29       mknod(1), null(4), zero(4)
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COLOPHON

32       This  page  is  part of release 3.22 of the Linux man-pages project.  A
33       description of the project, and information about reporting  bugs,  can
34       be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/.
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