yum thinks I don't have enough space, is not aware of mounted partition

I ran out of space on my disk. So I installed a new partition, mounted it to /var, and the system is running fine.

But now yum thinks I don't have enough space. I'm presuming this is because it is not aware of the new partition's free space, and is just checking the main partition.

At this point, I have two options:

• disable disk space check, knowing that eventually I will run out of space
• remove the old /var on the main partition

I'm not sure which is more safe