Why is /var so big?

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On 20 Mar 2005, at 20:36, Rob Rosenthal wrote:

>> Execute as root: mkdir /var/cache/yum
>> Btw. you broke it yourself by deleting all the content below 
>> /var/cache/
>> (previous thread).
>>
>> Alexander
>
> Alexander,
>
> Oh, I know.  I absolutely did it myself in my haste to free up space.  
> I tried (as root) the "mkdir /var/cache/yum" and got the following 
> error message: "mkdir: cannot create directory `/var/cache/yum': No 
> such file or directory"  I'm guessing it may be because I'm running 
> FC2 and not FC3, which has a new and different yum?  Do you think I 
> should just reinstall yum?

as root:
mkdir -p /var/cache/yum