Why is /var so big?

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am So, den 20.03.2005 schrieb Rob Rosenthal um 20:36:

> 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?

No, it does not matter that you run FC2 and not FC3. You deleted
/var/cache itself. 

mkdir /var/cache
mkdir /var/cache/yum

You may have to recreate more directories, depending on the RPMs you
installed.

Alexander


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