DEALLOCVT(1)

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✨ DEALLOCVT(1) ✨ — NAME 💖

deallocvt — okay so this is the command that deallocates unused virtual consoles 🧹✨

📜 SYNOPSIS 🎀

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

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so the command deallocvt deallocates kernel memory and data structures for all unused virtual consoles 🫶 like it's literally cleaning up your room while you're not looking 🧚 if you give it one or more arguments N ..., it only deallocates the matching consoles /dev/ttyN 🦋

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 🙈 all three have to be true, bestie, no cap 💀

🌸 OPTIONS 🌸

  • -C, --console=DEV — the console device to be used 💜
  • -V, --version — prints the version number ✨
  • -h, --help — prints the usage message 🎀

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Andries Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl> 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

chvt(1), openvt(1) 💖

bestie that's the whole tea 🍓 this page was from kbd, dated 24 October 2024, and yes it's giving DEALLOCVT(1) energy the whole way through 🌈💅✨

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