Full

Name

full - always full device

Description

/dev/full is a character device which is always full.

Reading from /dev/full returns '\0' bytes and exits with status 0.

Writing to /dev/full fails with ENOSPC error.

To create it manually:

mknod /dev/full c 1 7
chmod 666 /dev/full

Files

• /dev/full

Examples

$ head -c 8 /dev/full | hexdump
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00

See also

• null(4)
• zero(4)