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plakar-maintenanceRemove unused data from a Plakar repository

plakar maintenance

The plakar maintenance command removes unused blobs, objects, and chunks from a Plakar repository to reduce storage space. It identifies unreferenced data and reorganizes packfiles to ensure only active snapshots and their dependencies are retained. The maintenance process updates snapshot indexes to reflect these changes.

The plakar-maintenance utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

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