On Sun, Aug 30, 2015 at 09:04:48PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I have a question about (or a enhancement request) running fdisk. When
> asking to list known partition types, I get about 70 lines of output.
> Generally that would not be a problem, but I was running in a Debian
> install/rescue iso that uses busybox in a 25 line terminal. I do not have a
> way to scroll up and thus cannot see the first 40 or so partition types.
>
> Is there a way to use a pager for this? In this situation 'more' is
> available but 'less' is not. Otherwise I think an automatic pause every 20
> lines or so would be appropriate to build into the partition type listing.
We have lib/pager.c and setup_pager(), but it assumes that the pager
is running all time and maintain stdout until parent process
terminate.
Maybe we can implement something like
pid = setup_temporary_pager();
<list partition types>
close_pager(pid);
as I don't think we want to use pager all time for fdisk.
Volunteers?:-)
Karel
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