Manually Installing Encrypted ZFS on Ubuntu 24.04
Summary
For my daily driver Im fortunate enough to have mirrored ZFS setup, my secondary machine has only a single SSD slot. Since were using SSD, its position doesnt matter (on the hard drive you definitely want it way ahead) so I put it these days at the end to match my mirrored ZFS setup. Consider this just a suggestion and a good starting point, adjust as needed: With ZFS done, we might as well setup boot, EFI, and swap partitions too: At this time, I also often disable IPv6 as Ive noticed that on some misconfigured IPv6 networks it takes ages to download packages. With our newly installed system running, lets not forget to set up locale and time zone: Now were ready to onboard the latest Linux kernel. I just like to add them in order to hide our LUKS encrypted ZFS from the file manager: On systems with a lot of RAM, I like to adjust memory settings a bit.