diff --git a/pym/bob/scm/url.py b/pym/bob/scm/url.py
index d1d9111a..d95b254f 100644
--- a/pym/bob/scm/url.py
+++ b/pym/bob/scm/url.py
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@
 from http.client import HTTPException
 from abc import abstractmethod
 import asyncio
+import errno
 import concurrent.futures.process
 import contextlib
 import hashlib
@@ -512,7 +513,7 @@ def _download(self, url, destination, mode):
                 if "content-length" in rsp.info():
                     expected = int(rsp.info()["Content-Length"])
                     if expected > read:
-                        return False, "Response too short: {} < {} (bytes)".format(read, expected)
+                        return False, "Response too short: {} < {} (bytes)".format(read, expected), False
 
                 # Atomically move file to destination. Set mode to 0600 to
                 # retain Bob 0.15 behaviour if no explicit mode was configured.
@@ -522,12 +523,14 @@ def _download(self, url, destination, mode):
 
         except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
             if e.code != 304:
-                return False, "HTTP error {}: {}".format(e.code, e.reason)
+                return False, "HTTP error {}: {}".format(e.code, e.reason), False
             else:
                 # HTTP 304 Not modifed -> local file up-to-date
-                return False, None
+                return False, None, False
         except HTTPException as e:
-            return False, "HTTP error: " + str(e)
+            return False, "HTTP error: " + str(e), False
+        except OSError as e:
+            return False, "Failed to download: " + str(e), e.errno == errno.ENOSPC
         finally:
             if tmpFileName is not None:
                 os.remove(tmpFileName)
@@ -535,7 +538,7 @@ def _download(self, url, destination, mode):
             # to prevent ugly backtraces when user presses ctrl+c.
             signal.signal(signal.SIGINT, signal.SIG_DFL)
 
-        return True, None
+        return True, None, False
 
     async def _fetch(self, invoker, url, destination, mode):
         if url.scheme in ['', 'file']:
@@ -565,9 +568,11 @@ async def _fetch(self, invoker, url, destination, mode):
             while True:
                 invoker.trace("<wget>", url.geturl(), ">", destination, "retires:", retries)
                 try:
-                    updated, err = await invoker.runInExecutor(UrlScm._download, self, url, destination, mode)
+                    updated, err, fatal = await invoker.runInExecutor(UrlScm._download, self, url, destination, mode)
                     if err:
-                        if retries == 0:
+                        if fatal:
+                            invoker.fail(err)
+                        elif retries == 0:
                             return False, err
                         else:
                             invoker.warn(err)
diff --git a/test/unit/test_input_urlscm.py b/test/unit/test_input_urlscm.py
index a2957c00..475eece2 100644
--- a/test/unit/test_input_urlscm.py
+++ b/test/unit/test_input_urlscm.py
@@ -7,6 +7,9 @@
 from unittest import TestCase, skipIf
 from unittest.mock import MagicMock, patch
 import asyncio
+import contextlib
+import errno
+import concurrent.futures
 import os, stat
 import subprocess
 import shutil
@@ -54,8 +57,9 @@ def __exit__(self, exception_type, exception_value, exception_traceback):
 
 class UrlScmExecutor:
 
-    def invokeScm(self, workspace, scm, switch=False, oldScm=None, workspaceCreated=False):
-        executor = getProcessPoolExecutor()
+    def invokeScm(self, workspace, scm, switch=False, oldScm=None, workspaceCreated=False, executor=None):
+        if executor is None:
+            executor = getProcessPoolExecutor()
         try:
             spec = MagicMock(workspaceWorkspacePath=workspace, envWhiteList=set())
             invoker = Invoker(spec, False, True, True, True, True, False,
@@ -341,6 +345,27 @@ def testNoResponse(self):
                 with self.assertRaises(InvocationError):
                     self.invokeScm(workspace, scm)
 
+    @patch('signal.signal')
+    def testDownloadDiskFull(self, signalMock):
+        """Full disk directly terminates downloads"""
+        tmp = MagicMock()
+        tmp.name = None
+        tmp.write.side_effect = OSError(errno.ENOSPC, "Disk full")
+        ntf = MagicMock(return_value=contextlib.nullcontext(enter_result=tmp))
+
+        with (HttpServerMock(self.dir)  as srv,
+              TemporaryWorkspace()      as workspace,
+              patch('tempfile.NamedTemporaryFile', ntf)):
+            scm = self.createUrlScm({
+                "url" : "http://localhost:{}/test.txt".format(srv.port),
+                "retries" : 3
+            })
+
+            with self.assertRaises(InvocationError):
+                self.invokeScm(workspace, scm, executor=concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor())
+
+            self.assertEqual(srv.getRequests, 1, "URL SCM does not retry on disk full errors")
+
 class TestExtraction(TestCase):
 
     @classmethod