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

16       The file /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7.
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18       Writes to the /dev/full device fail with an ENOSPC error.  This can  be
19       used to test how a program handles disk-full errors.
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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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