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Arch Linux Root on ZFS

Installation steps for running Arch Linux with root on ZFS using UEFI and systemd-boot. All steps are run as root.

Requires an Arch Linux image with ZFS built-in (see References).

In live environment

If using KVM, add a Serial number for each virtual disk and reboot the VM. The disks should now be available in /dev/disk/by-id as virtio-<Serial>.

Soulsuke

NOTE: requires an EFI bios, so zfs will not use the whole disk as this is a single disk scenario.



/*\
|* Prerequisite: preare archiso with zfs support
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// 0. Do everything as root.