How to fix “Yum Install Error – Insufficient space in download directory”?

Scenario:

Error : Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/7/epel

[root@admin~]# yum install lshw
Installing:
lshw x86_64 B.02.17-3.el6 base 1053 k
Error Downloading Packages:
lshw-B.02.17-3.el6.x86_64: Insufficient space in download directory /var/cache/yum/x86_64/6/base/packages
* free 0
* needed 1053 k

This error message gives a hint with stats as ‘free 0’, which means you are running out of disk space. And you can resolve this by:

Solution #1:

You can resolve this by either deleting unwanted files in the cache folder (/var/cache/) and free the directory.

Solution #2:

Now, you should try to free up some space under ‘/’ partition.

/dev/sda1  4.9G  4.8G 0 100% /

Assume, you have enough space on another partition, then you can change "cachedir" directory in yum.conf. 

# vi /etc/yum.conf
[main]
sslverify=0
cachedir=/anotherpartition/yum/cache/