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DEALLOCVT(1)                           General Commands Manual                          DEALLOCVT(1)



NAME
       deallocvt - deallocate unused virtual consoles

SYNOPSIS
       deallocvt [option...]  [N ...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  command  deallocvt  deallocates kernel memory and data structures for all unused virtual
       consoles.  If one or more arguments  N  ...   are  given,  only  the  corresponding  consoles
       /dev/ttyN are deallocated.

       A  virtual  console is unused if it is not the foreground console, and no process has it open
       for reading or writing, and no text has been selected on its screen.

OPTIONS
       -V, --version
              print program version and exit.

       -h, --help
              show this text and exit.

SEE ALSO
       chvt(1), openvt(1)





kbd                                          17 Mar 1997                                DEALLOCVT(1)