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.