Mount NFS Network drive without toltec

[sullen spade]

I've tried to mount a nfs hosted folder from my desktop on my remarkable in order to prevent it from being filled with ebooks.

I've poked around and noticed that the nfs filesystem is loaded in the kernel and is present in /proc/filesystems. However when I try to mount it I get the following error:

mount: /mnt: bad option; for several filesystems (e.g. nfs, cifs) you might need a /sbin/mount.<type> helper program.

Is it possible to mount an nfs filesystem without installing toltec or do I need to downgrade and install it?

[lime grotto]

What unit are you on, and what exact mount command did you give? What's in /sbin/mount.*?

[sullen spade]

Remarkable 2, and the exact command was
mount -t nfs <local desktop ip>:/nfs/folder /mnt

and here are the contents of /sbin

[static steeple]

From that message, it seems that /sbin/mount expects to find /sbin/mount.nfs command in the $PATH.

Googling that exact error message, it seems that various Linux distributions install an additional NFS related package which provides that missing command mount.nfs.

Maybe you could compile the relevant command and install it on your device and see if that works.

Or maybe you can try to use this Golang NFS client and see if that can be used as a workaround instead: https://github.com/vmware-archive/go-nfs-client

[lime grotto]

Of course all of this is going to be harder than installing toltec and being patient about upgrades

[sullen spade]

If the toolchain was available for the latest version i would just compile the binary, but afaik its only out for 3.9.5

[lime grotto]

Do you necessarily need the full toolchain? I've rolled my own cross-compilation without much problem, although it was for a simpler thing than an NFS client.

[sullen spade]

idk what will brick the device and what wont. I saw that the most recent toolchain only said it was compatible up to version 3.9.5 and decided to ask here before i bricled my device