On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 18:33:39 +0200, Nicolas Thierry-Mieg wrote: > sebastiano at datafaber.net wrote: >> The file /var/cache/yum/base/primary.xml.gz.sqlite is only 20KB, >> whereas in the "normal" case I'd expect it to be 6.5MB. Somehow, yum >> is > > you're not out of hard drive space on that partition, are you? Not at all: [root at picard ~]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 35G 3.1G 30G 10% / /dev/sdb1 1.8T 527G 1.2T 31% /data /dev/sda1 145M 34M 104M 25% /boot tmpfs 1005M 0 1005M 0% /dev/shm And there's also plenty of available space on the other 5 boxes which exhibit the same issue.