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

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  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 3.44 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)