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I have a program that writes files to disk. I want to test the programs behaviour when the filesystem written to is full.
What is the best option for creating a small filesystem to test this without having to order disk setup which on the SAN... I guess Ram disk requires reboots which is not great.
Use a loop device sounds good. You can dd to a file, and then make an fs on the file, and loop mount it for testing. You can even simulate partitions. http://www.andremiller.net/content/mounting-hard-disk-image-including-partitions-using-linux
You should use /dev/full as it is made available just for that.
/dev/full is virtual device that is always full.
$ echo "Hello world" > /dev/full
bash: echo: write error: No space left on device
