deallocvt - deallocate unused virtual consoles
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.
- -V, --version
- print program version and exit.
- -h, --help
- show this text and exit.
chvt(1),
openvt(1)