Debian

Offical ZFS on Linux DKMS style packages are available from the Debian GNU/Linux repository for the following configurations. The packages previously hosted at archive.zfsonlinux.org will not be updated and are not recommended for new installations.

Debian Releases: Jessie and newer (testing, sid)
Architectures: amd64

Table of contents

• Installation
• Jessie to Stretch update
• Debian GNU Linux initrd documentation
• Debian Stretch Root on ZFS
• Dual booting OS X and Debian Jessie with ZFS root, cross mounting and full disk encryption

Installation

For Debian Stretch, ZFS packages are included in contrib repository.

For Debian Jessie, ZFS packages are provided by backports.

Install kernel headers:

# apt install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Install zfs packages:

# apt-get install zfs-dkms zfsutils-linux

If you want to boot from ZFS, you'll need zfs-initramfs package too:

# apt-get install zfs-initramfs

Jessie to Stretch update

From Debian Stretch packages are included in Debian official contrib repository. Steps to reinstall packages:

1. Remove old packages:

# apt remove debian-zfs libzfs2 zfs-dkms zfsonlinux zfsutils libzpool2 libzfs2linux libnvpair1linux libnvpair1 libuutil1 libuutil1linux  libzpool2linux zfs-zed zfsutils-linux spl-dkms

2. Install new packages, as described above.