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26 .TH FULL 4 2007-11-24 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
28 full \- always full device
30 If your system does not have
33 can be created with the following commands:
36 mknod \-m 666 /dev/full c 1 7
37 chown root:root /dev/full
42 has major device number 1
43 and minor device number 7.
47 device will fail with an
50 This can be used to test how a program handles disk-full errors.
54 device will return \\0 characters.