full(4)

full4

The full device

Overview

The full device supplies an endless stream of zeros when read. However, it will always be full when writing to it.

Files

/dev/full

Releases

40 releases since FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE; the text changed 27 times.

  1. 7.3
  2. 7.4
  3. 8.1
  4. 8.2
  5. 8.3
  6. 8.4
  7. 9.0
  8. 9.1
  9. 9.2
  10. 9.3
  11. 10.0
  12. 10.1
  13. 10.2
  14. 10.3
  15. 10.4
  16. 11.0
  17. 11.1
  18. 11.2
  19. 11.3
  20. 11.4
  21. 12.0
  22. 12.1
  23. 12.2
  24. 12.3
  25. 12.4
  26. 13.0
  27. 13.1–13.2
  28. 13.3–16.0

Authors

This device and man page was written by Eitan Adler ⟨[email protected]⟩.

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.