FULL(4)

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. 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

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