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 argu‐
       ments 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)