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

6       full - always full device
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DESCRIPTION

9       File /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7.
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11       Writes  to  the  /dev/full device will fail with an ENOSPC error.  This
12       can be used to test how a program handles disk-full errors.
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14       Reads from the /dev/full device will return \0 characters.
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16       Seeks on /dev/full will always succeed.
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CONFIGURING

19       If your system does not have /dev/full created already, it can be  cre‐
20       ated with the following commands:
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22               mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7
23               chown root:root /dev/full
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FILES

27       /dev/full
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SEE ALSO

30       mknod(1), null(4), zero(4)
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34Linux                             1997-08-02                           FULL(4)
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