Securing Systems and Attached Devices in Oracle^® Solaris 11.3

How to Deallocate a Device

Deallocation enables other users to allocate and use the device when you are finished.

Before You Begin

You must have allocated the device. For information, see How to Allocate a Device.

1. If the device is mounted, unmount the device.

   $ cd $HOME
   $ umount mount-point

2. Deallocate the device.

   $ deallocate device-name

Example 15  Deallocating a Microphone

In this example, the user jdoe deallocates the microphone, audio.

$ whoami
jdoe
$ deallocate audio0

Example 16  Deallocating a CD-ROM Drive

In this example, the Device Allocator role deallocates a CD-ROM drive. After the message is printed, the CD-ROM is ejected.

$ whoami
devicealloc
$ cd /home/devicealloc
$ umount /home/devicealloc/mymnt
$ ls /home/devicealloc/mymnt
$
$ deallocate sr0
/dev/sr0:      326o
/dev/rsr0:     326o
…
sr_clean: Media in sr0 is ready.  Please, label and store safely.