/var is full and yum clean not working to clean up space

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Issue

  • The /var filesystem is at 100% - For example: it is 8 Gib in size, 7.8 Gib of it is in /var/cache/yum.
  • I have tried to run yum clean dbcache and yum clean metadata, but the last one has been running for over 18 hours and I see nothing removed.
  • I executed yum clean all successfully, but the /var/cache/yum still show the same disk usage on cache files.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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