How to automatically mount zfs file system on Linux/Unix/FreeBSD

To automatically mount a ZFS file system on a Linux, Unix, or FreeBSD system, you will need to do the following:

1. Create the ZFS file system if it does not already exist.

2. Determine the mount point for the file system. This is the directory where the file system will be mounted in the file system hierarchy.

3. Edit the /etc/fstab file and add a line for the ZFS file system with the following format:

<device> <mount point> <filesystem type> <options> <dump> <fsck>

Replace <device> with the device name of the ZFS file system, such as zfs/mypool/myfilesystem, <mount point> with the mount point for the file system, such as /mnt/myfilesystem, <filesystem type> with zfs, and <options> with the desired mount options, such as defaults. Leave the <dump> and <fsck> fields as 0.

For example, to automatically mount the ZFS file system zfs/mypool/myfilesystem at the mount point /mnt/myfilesystem with the default mount options, you can add the following line to the /etc/fstab file:

zfs/mypool/myfilesystem /mnt/myfilesystem zfs defaults 0 0

4. Mount the ZFS file system by running the following command:

# mount -a

This will mount all file systems listed in the /etc/fstab file, including the ZFS file system.

The ZFS file system should now be automatically mounted at boot time and whenever the mount -a command is run.

For more information about configuring and managing ZFS file systems on a Linux, Unix, or FreeBSD system, you can refer to the ZFS documentation and the zfs and mount man pages by running man zfs and man mount on the command line.