Name
full — always full device
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.
CONFIGURING
If your system does not have /dev/full
created already, it can be
created with the following commands:
SEE ALSO
mknod(1), null(4), zero(4)
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