Install Full Ubuntu with ZFS on a Single USB Drive (Ultimate 24.04 Edition)

[@ashimzid]

Did not work for me, after installation on pen drive, on restart there is a message "Reset System" that keeps shows up and the screen goes blank... It keeps looping endlessly here...

[@cassianomak]

Great video! Congrats from Brazil!

[@waynevernon6860]

Thanks for this. I installed Ubuntu using zfs on my PC that has 3 4TB hard drives. On the desktop, I see a number of drives showing a zroot that can't be mounted, and an Ubuntu file that's showing as almost 4TB. Do you know if the Ubuntu auto configuration just mirrors across all 3 drives, or if it's the same as raid z1 on freebsd?

[@GuestOffline]

hi bro i was watching your linux mint video on how to install it to a usb the installer ended up failing and now i cant format or delete anything on my usb because it is "read only" any help?

[@faceless.anonymous]

Delete the partitions in the usb using diskpart in cmd, then format it

[@GuestOffline]

@@faceless.anonymous already tried that, doesn't work.

[@faceless.anonymous]

@@GuestOffline maybe you used a fake usb that's why it failed. Try to use partition softwares out there and make sure you watch tutorial videos first with good ratings. Dont based in views

[@TanyaPop-r4w]

Hello - Im new to UBUNTU and I have followed the steps in this video. I have installed everything successfully but when following the prompt for sudo to verify update and or try to verify gnome 3 - the terminal will not let me put in my password. The terminal will work with anything else that does not require my password. When I go to type in my pw the terminal freezes. The white cursor is there and flashing but no keys are showing, the paste method does not work. Control + C gets me unfroze but I have to rewrite my command which brings me to the same "keys frozen" response. When starting up ubuntu I have no issues putting my pw in and logging in. Can I please get some direction. Is this due to being a ZFS? Help!! Thank you in advance.

[@GrapeJuicez]

Can I ask? Does it maintain the files permanently on the flash drive even when unplugged? Because based on the tutorial you didn't set any persistent partition size. As far as I know, persistence is the one letting the files keep in the drive even the drive is unplugged.

[@faceless.anonymous]

He used the "install ubuntu" option instead of "try ubuntu" option during the setup but he cut that part in the video. All linux distros has feature like that called "live usb" means you can try linux even without installing them. If you want to save files on live usb without installing the actual linux (plug & play), you can set the persistence partition size in rufus, but as I mentioned, he used the "install linux" option directly to that usb installer thats why he dont set the persistence thing in rufus

[@faceless.anonymous]

And yes, both "try linux" with persistence, and "install linux" without setting persistence in rufus can save files even you unplugged the usb

[@GrapeJuicez]

Thank you so much for the help🫡

[@SujayJayakumar-cv9ig]

Hey, could you please clarify if this method will use any of the system hard drive storage or will it be completely be out of the USB Drive?

[@agiledevart]

@@SujayJayakumar-cv9ig it should not use your hard drive, only the USB. Some have reported that it changes the boot partition on the hard drive (which is probably a bug), but I install linux this way all the time and my hard drive with windows still works and boots fine

[@dktol56]

Maybe run "df -T" in a terminal to demonstrate that the root filesystem is ZFS.

[@agiledevart]

Good point 👍

[@kaushalkulkarni921]

I have used 128Gb pendrive for this. And followed the process. So when I want to install any application it will be on the pendrive right not the Ram?

[@agiledevart]

@@kaushalkulkarni921 yes, on the pendrive

[@kaushalkulkarni921]

@@agiledevart but in neofetch why the memory is shown only 16Gb. The space should be 128 right?

[@kaushalkulkarni921]

How do I check if the memory is really 128 and usable as I am going to install 30Gb software

[@agiledevart]

Neofetch shows RAM memory. 16GB is your RAM. To see free disk space execute df -h in console

[@kaushalkulkarni921]

@@agiledevart sure. Thanks for the clarification.

[@queenfactsz]

it is saying Enter the recovery key for this drive

[@Bjorn1976]

Thanks, im a windows guy....now i try this and see if this is better system for me 🤘🏻😁

[@itsdaveguys7356]

Can i still install ubuntu onto an external USB drive from a live usb drive?

[@agiledevart]

@@itsdaveguys7356 yes

[@ItGrass]

3:40

[@PratikDeshmukh1]

Easy and friendly tutorial...keep going mate.

[@Pessi8-2]

Apple MacOS: APFS Canonical Ubuntu: ZFS Microsoft Windows: NTFS

[@haideralilokhandwala9048]

Hi. I really like your content. It has helped me with my research. Thank you for making such videos. I would like to request you for a video. Can you please make a video on how to install ubuntu plug and play for macbook. I have a ssd and I want to install ubuntu and make it plug and play with my macbook.

[@itskhushman]

is 32 gb pendrive enough?

[@welcome_al]

Когда уже сделаете установку FreeBSD с удобном графическим интерфейсом 👹

[@Pumpkin-Link]

please NEVER use ZFS for work on a desktop machine, it's a trap, you can't use a proper swap file/pool, there's been a bug ticket on their github the last 10 years or something (that's one of the main reasons it's flagged as "experimental"), you can't shrink zfs partitions, you can only grow them. and it uses a lot of ram for some reason, I was getting OOM crashes all the time with 16GB ram before moving back to ext4, I'm a software developer and I need to run a lot of stuff locally at the same time. if you want reliability just use ext4 with traditional periodic backups or use something like btrfs

[@Pumpkin-Link]

the issue is called "swap deadlock in 0.7.9" on openzfs github id anyone wanna read it, and I guess it's probably never gonna be fixed

[@fr0xk]

ZFS is a first class citizen for FreeBSD servers

[@CanerDeniz1]