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FULL (4)

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.

    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:

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

FILES

    /dev/full

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