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+.\" -*- nroff -*- 
+.\"
+.\" This man-page is Copyright (C) 1997 John S. Kallal 
+.\"
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+.\" professionally.
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+.\" Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
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+.\"
+.\" correction, aeb, 970825
+.TH FULL 4 1997-08-02 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+full \- always full device
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+File \fB/dev/full\fP has major device number 1 
+and minor device number 7.
+.LP 
+Writes to the \fB/dev/full\fP device will fail with an ENOSPC error.
+
+Reads from the \fB/dev/full\fP device will return \\0 characters.
+
+Seeks on \fB/dev/full\fP will always succeed.
+.SH CONFIGURING
+If your system does not have \fB/dev/full\fP created already, it 
+can be created with the following commands:
+.nf
+
+        mknod -m 666 /dev/full c 1 7
+        chown root:root /dev/full
+
+.fi
+.SH FILES
+/dev/full
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR mknod (1),
+.BR null (4),
+.BR zero (4)