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.TH DEALLOCVT 1 "17 Mar 1997"
.SH NAME
deallocvt \- deallocate unused virtual consoles
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B deallocvt
.RI [ N " ...]"
.SH DESCRIPTION
.LP
The command
.B deallocvt
deallocates kernel memory and data structures
for all unused virtual consoles.
If one or more arguments
.IR N " ..."
are given, only the corresponding consoles
.I /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.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR chvt (1),
.BR openvt (1)