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@@ -277,6 +277,17 @@ to the youngest generation; therefore, upon a call to **`gc`** everything
not referenced since the last call to **`gc`** is purged and the
corresponding disk space reclaimed.
+Additionally, and before doing generation rotation,
+ - left-over temporary directories (e.g., from interrupted `just`
+ invocations) are removed, and
+ - large files are split and only the chunks and the information
+ how to assemble the file from the chunks are kept; in this way
+ disk space is saved without losing information.
+
+As the non-rotating tasks can be useful in their own right, the
+`--no-rotate` option can be used to request only the clean-up tasks
+that do not lose information.
+
**`execute`**
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