fsck.zfs command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

fsck.zfs: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: fsck.zfs: command not found

Solutions to fsck.zfs: command not found

How To Fix fsck.zfs: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu fsck.zfs is provided by zfsutils-linux package.

zfsutils-linux is:

OpenZFS is a storage platform that encompasses the functionality of traditional filesystems and volume managers. It supports data checksums, compression, encryption, snapshots, and more.

This package provides the zfs and zpool commands to create and administer OpenZFS filesystems.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install zfsutils-linux

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install zfsutils-linux.

sudo apt -y install zfsutils-linux

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install zfsutils-linux

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix fsck.zfs command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.