NixOS reboot after first start of the day

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In the evening I turn off my computers (cut the power) and the next morning when I restart NixOS it reboots after about 4 minutes and then if I reboot during the day no problem.
Problem only at the first start in the morning.

āžœ systemd-analyze
Startup finished in 12.519s (firmware) + 4.498s (loader) + 2.595s (kernel) + 4min 21.865s (userspace) = 4min 41.478s
graphical.target reached after 6.468s in userspace.

What takes 4min 21.865s minutes is my 4TB external drive.

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Hm, if you literally just yank the power then maybe ext4 is taking a while to restore the filesystem or such. Have you considered proper shutdown?

To get a clear picture, can you share the output of journalctl --boot after one of these slow boots?

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I had to reinstall NixOS and I no longer have disk problems.