FULL
Section: Linux Programmer's Manual (4)
Updated: 2007-11-24
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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
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- SEE ALSO
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- COLOPHON
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