NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       full - always full device

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       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    [Toc]    [Back]

       /dev/full

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       mknod(1), null(4), zero(4)




Linux				  1997-08-02			       FULL(4)