deallocvt - Man Page

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

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.

-C,  --console=DEV

the console device to be used.

-V,  --version

print version number.

-h,  --help

print this usage message.

Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>

chvt(1), openvt(1)

chvt(1), fgconsole(1), openvt(1), vlock(1).