Wedges are a new thing since I last used NetBSD, and clearly they're going to be involved, as I'm going to want/need GPT partitioning, since hardware nowadays tends to use UEFI.
This talks about some of the commands used:
https://wiki.netbsd.org/users/mlelstv/using-large-disks/
And some man pages:
https://man.netbsd.org/dk.4
https://man.netbsd.org/dkctl.8
I'm leaning more towards *not* using a ramdisk which will never be released and instead trading some disk space to do the same thing. I haven't gotten to a proof of concept yet, but I'm hoping to get there this weekend if I can.
#netbsd
Mason Loring Bliss
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