Automount ext4 format thumb drive via NFS on a raspberry pi in cluster with fstab fails on reboot

Question

I am trying to automount (on reboot) an NFS thumb drive onto another raspberry pies in a cluster using fstab.

I have tried all the solutions on how to auto mount NFS drive on reboot using fstab

1. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1347996/rpi4-ubuntu-20-04-2-lts-nfs-drive-not-mounting-on-boot

• systemctl enable NetworkManager-wait-online.service
• x-systemd.automount
• x-systemd.mount-timeout=5
• x-systemd.device-timeout=5

2. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1405231/unable-to-mount-nfs-on-ubuntu-22-04

• auto,vers=3
• _netdev,noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=10,timeo=14,x-systemd.idle-timeout=1min

but none of them auto mounts nfs drive after a reboot. I have to use mount -a after a reboot.

I am using the following distribution on all raspberry pies:

Distributor ID: Debian
Description:    Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
Release:    10
Codename:   buster

The current fstab entry

rpi1:/home/pi/cloud /home/pi/cloud nfs noauto,x-systemd.automount,x-systemd.mount-timeout=5,_netdev 0 0

Answer 1

The easiest and non hassel solution I found is to install nfs-common package on the clients.