diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 2b302e83a6629f94a4dc496f0fea849c5c51cb3b..24d56f94999a8428e50566dff7e5f847e289dd66 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ documents those changes that are of interest to users and admins.
  -- Add NodeCnt to filetxt job completion plugin.
  -- Minor restructuring of how MMCS is polled for DOWN nodes and switches.
  -- Fix squeue output format for "%s" (node select data).
+ -- Queue job requesting more resources than exist in a partition if 
+    that partition's state is DOWN (rather than just abort it).
 
 * Changes in SLURM 0.4.4
 ========================
diff --git a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
index 3e34752d7c91250b4646b32de3b015e79c60fdb2..50df83f02003557678fecd62c0711f959cb9045e 100644
--- a/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
+++ b/src/slurmctld/job_mgr.c
@@ -1630,14 +1630,16 @@ static int _job_create(job_desc_msg_t * job_desc, int allocate, int will_run,
 #endif
 	if (job_desc->max_nodes == NO_VAL)
 		job_desc->max_nodes = 0;
-	if (job_desc->num_procs > part_ptr->total_cpus) {
+	if ((part_ptr->state_up)
+	&&  (job_desc->num_procs > part_ptr->total_cpus)) {
 		info("Job requested too many cpus (%d) of partition %s(%d)", 
 		     job_desc->num_procs, part_ptr->name, 
 		     part_ptr->total_cpus);
 		error_code = ESLURM_TOO_MANY_REQUESTED_CPUS;
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
-	if (job_desc->min_nodes > part_ptr->total_nodes) {
+	if ((part_ptr->state_up)
+	&&  (job_desc->min_nodes > part_ptr->total_nodes)) {
 		info("Job requested too many nodes (%d) of partition %s(%d)", 
 		     job_desc->min_nodes, part_ptr->name, 
 		     part_ptr->total_nodes);