listing fdisk partition tyles

listing fdisk partition tyles

[Bruce Dubbs]

I have a request.  When I try to install Debian from an iso, I like to 
drop to the command line to run fdisk to partition the disk drive.  When 
selecting GPT, I have a problem with listing the partition types.

The screen is running at about 80x25 and I have no control over that.
The l command lists all the 81 types and there is no way to scroll back to 
see the first 55 entries in the list.

There is no problem when listing partition types when the partition table 
is the old MSDOS type,

I would like to request a pager, possibly as an option, for the partition 
type list when using a GPT partition table.

Thanks.

   -- Bruce Dubbs
      linuxfromscratch.org

Re: listing fdisk partition tyles

[Karel Zak]

On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> I have a request.  When I try to install Debian from an iso, I like to drop
> to the command line to run fdisk to partition the disk drive.  When
> selecting GPT, I have a problem with listing the partition types.
> 
> The screen is running at about 80x25 and I have no control over that.
> The l command lists all the 81 types and there is no way to scroll back to
> see the first 55 entries in the list.
> 
> There is no problem when listing partition types when the partition table is
> the old MSDOS type,
> 
> I would like to request a pager, possibly as an option, for the partition
> type list when using a GPT partition table.

Implemented. Try it. 

It's enabled for strings based partition types (=GPT) only.

    Karel


-- 
 Karel Zak  <kzak@redhat.com>
 http://karelzak.blogspot.com

Re: listing fdisk partition tyles

[Bruce Dubbs]

Karel Zak wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2016 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
>> I have a request.  When I try to install Debian from an iso, I like to drop
>> to the command line to run fdisk to partition the disk drive.  When
>> selecting GPT, I have a problem with listing the partition types.
>>
>> The screen is running at about 80x25 and I have no control over that.
>> The l command lists all the 81 types and there is no way to scroll back to
>> see the first 55 entries in the list.
>>
>> There is no problem when listing partition types when the partition table is
>> the old MSDOS type,
>>
>> I would like to request a pager, possibly as an option, for the partition
>> type list when using a GPT partition table.
>
> Implemented. Try it.
>
> It's enabled for strings based partition types (=GPT) only.

It works well for me.  Thanks.

The only suggestion I have is that the prompt might be more informative 
than just a colon.  Perhaps something like "(space for more; q to quit):" 
would be useful.  I do see that up and down arrows/page work also.

That's not essential though.

   -- Bruce