How to install ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 LTS

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To install ZFS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, follow these steps:

  1. Add the ZFS PPA repository: ZFS is not included in the default Ubuntu repositories, so you need to add the ZFS PPA repository to your system by running the following commands:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install software-properties-common
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:zfs-native/stable
sudo apt-get update
  1. Install the ZFS packages: To install the ZFS packages, run the following command:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-zfs
  1. Load the ZFS module: To load the ZFS module, run the following command:
sudo modprobe zfs
  1. Create ZFS pools and datasets: After you’ve installed ZFS, you can create ZFS pools and datasets by using the zpool and zfs commands. For example, to create a ZFS pool named mypool on a disk at /dev/sdb, you would run the following command:
sudo zpool create mypool /dev/sdb
  1. Mount ZFS datasets: You can mount ZFS datasets to a directory in your file system. For example, to mount the mypool/data dataset to /mnt/data, you would run the following command:
sudo zfs create mypool/data
sudo zfs set mountpoint=/mnt/data mypool/data
sudo zfs mount mypool/data

That’s it! You’ve successfully installed ZFS on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Now you can start using ZFS to manage your file system and data.

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