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

Install Full Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 with ZFS file system on a single USB drive using the new installer.
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00:00 Introduction
01:25 Download Ubuntu ISO
02:49 Create Ubuntu Live USB with rufus
04:13 Change Grub Settings
04:58 Run Ubuntu Live USB from RAM
05:48 Setting up ZFS partitions
07:06 Running Full Ubuntu 24.04 from USB
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▶️ Full Ubuntu on a USB Drive (23.04):

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[PratikDeshmukh]

Easy and friendly tutorial...keep going mate.

[Bjorn]

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

[queenfactsz]

it is saying Enter the recovery key for this drive

[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...

[dktol]

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

[Pessi-]

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

[waynevernon]

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?

[TanyaPop-rw]

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.

[haideralilokhandwala]

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.

[SujayJayakumar-cvig]

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?

[itsdaveguys]

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

[kaushalkulkarni]

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?

[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

[welcome_al]

Когда уже сделаете установку FreeBSD с удобном графическим интерфейсом
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