It lives!

Steps (for my own info, as well as others):

1) At "$" prompt use "su -" or "sudo -s" to get root level "#" prompt (pfexec did not work)
2) # format (displays physical drives to be used in pool), use "control c" to exit format.
3) # zpool create storagepool raidz2 c11t0d0 c11t1d0 c11t2d0 c11t3d0 c11t4d0 c11t5d0 (creates a raidz2 virtual device named "storagepool" from physical devices c11t0d0 to c11t5d0)
4) # zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed storagepool/media (creates a subfolder named media in the folder storagepool)
5)# zfs create -o casesensitivity=mixed storagepool/media/shows (creates a subfolder named shows in media)
6) # chown -R <username> /storagepool (transfers ownership to the user instead of root)

Setting up sharing:

7) # svcadm enable -r smb/server (turns sharing on?)
8) # smbadm join -w WORKGROUP (allows for compatibly with windows workgroup sharing)
9) # echo "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn" >> /etc/pam.conf (I have no idea) EDIT: Allows the next step (step 10) to edit the file pam.conf to include a new smb password...
10) # passwd username (changes password, not sure why) EDIT: Changes the remote smb password (due to step 9), not the regular local user password.
11) # zfs set sharesmb=name=shows storagepool/shows (shares the folder at storagepool/shows as "shows")

Note that the name "storagepool" is picked by the user and could have been any name at step 3.
The name "media" in step 4 and "shows" in step 5 are also user selected and could be any descriptive word.
Finally the name "shows" in step 11 at name=shows is the user selected shared name which can be different than the local name of the folder.

---------- Post updated at 06:26 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:24 AM ----------

So now that the ZFS pool is up and running it is time to fill it up with data. I've got a linux external hard drive with the ext2 file system I'd like to plug in and use.

I can't figure out how to mount it, or if it automounts, I can't find the mount point?

It show up as drive 7 after running the format command.

On all the other operating systems I use a new device just pops up and works with a click or two. Even older Linux distros would mount with a simple command like "mount /dev/sda /mnt/sda1" or something like that.

How does one do this type of thing with Solaris 11?

---------- Post updated at 06:55 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:26 AM ----------

This is the drive I want to mount:

7. c12t0d0 <WDCWD10-EACS-00ZJB0-01.0 cyl 60798 alt 2 hd 255 sec 126>
/pci@0,0/pci1458,5004@12,2/storage@6/disk@0,0

---------- Post updated at 07:07 AM ---------- Previous update was at 06:55 AM ----------

I just tried an 8GB USB memory stick and it automounted real easy.

The drive that does not mount is a 1 TB USB bootable linux with at least 2 partitions, maybe 3 (boot, swap, data). The data partition is ext2.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!