Forcibly Deallocating a Device

Because devices that a user has allocated are not automatically deallocated when the process terminates or when the user logs out, you might have to use forcible deallocation when a user has forgotten to deallocate a device.

Use the deallocate -f command to forcibly deallocate the device as follows:

$ deallocate -f /dev/lp/printer-1

In this example, a printer is forcibly deallocated so it is available for allocation by another user.