diff --git a/examples/arhcive.nix b/examples/arhcive.nix
index f606b8c..6616d81 100644
--- a/examples/arhcive.nix
+++ b/examples/arhcive.nix
@@ -88,16 +88,6 @@ in rec {
     fstype = "ext4";
   };
 
-  # until we support retained uevent state, we need to push coldplug
-  # events to mount_external_disk to account for the case that the
-  # disk is already plugged at boot time
-
-  services.fudge_coldplug = oneshot {
-    name = "fudge_coldplug";
-    up = "sleep 5; for i in /sys/class/block/*/uevent; do echo 'change' > $i ;done";
-    dependencies = [ services.mount_external_disk ];
-  };
-
   services.rsync =
     let
       secrets_file = oneshot rec {