diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 54b63a4db78..5770248dd2e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -178,6 +178,9 @@ Release 2.4.0 - UNRELEASED
     TestFileContextResolveAfs and TestStat in branch-2 (Mit Desai via Colin
     Patrick McCabe)
 
+    HADOOP-8753. LocalDirAllocator throws "ArithmeticException: / by zero" when
+    there is no available space on configured local dir. (Benoy Antony via hitesh)
+
 Release 2.3.0 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalDirAllocator.java b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalDirAllocator.java
index e5a1da23728..7748ac5b54e 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalDirAllocator.java
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/fs/LocalDirAllocator.java
@@ -362,6 +362,10 @@ public class LocalDirAllocator {
           totalAvailable += availableOnDisk[i];
         }
 
+        if (totalAvailable == 0){
+          throw new DiskErrorException("No space available in any of the local directories.");
+        }
+
         // Keep rolling the wheel till we get a valid path
         Random r = new java.util.Random();
         while (numDirsSearched < numDirs && returnPath == null) {