Debian 10.x and ZFS

Installation woes… let’s fix that. The Debian wiki seems to be a bit out of date on this when it comes to Debian 10, and if you don’t have contrib’s enabled for whatever the reason may be.

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list

Add in the following two lines at the end…

deb http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib
deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian buster-backports main contrib

Save and close sources.list

Run “apt update

apt install linux-headers-`uname -r`
apt install -t buster-backports zfsutils-linux

You should get a notice that ZFS has legality/infringe issues. Slap that OK button and continue.

ZFS is now installed and good to go after apt does its thing.

Head over to https://wiki.debian.org/ZFS#Creating_the_Pool to read up on pools.

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