diff --git a/checkin_notes b/checkin_notes
index 61d7f75e5f..1f1803c9a8 100755
--- a/checkin_notes
+++ b/checkin_notes
@@ -13950,3 +13950,17 @@ Rom    26 Nov 2005
     locale/en_US/
         BOINC Manager.po
         BOINC Manager.mo
+
+Bruce 26 Nov 2005
+    - Sched fix from Walt Gribben: have scheduler defaults for disk
+      space prefs agree with web page.  Bruce's note: this may require
+      further fixes for two cases.  First, if the project prefs are
+      not the same as BOINC defaults.  Second, if the user doesn't want
+      BOINC to leave any disk space free and on their web preference page
+      sets 'leave X bytes free' to zero, then this patch will assume they
+      mean 100MB.  But I'm still applying the patch 'cause Walt says that
+      this is keeping lots of new users from getting work.
+
+    sched/
+        sched_send.C
+
diff --git a/sched/sched_send.C b/sched/sched_send.C
index e08a1f4778..77c355995d 100644
--- a/sched/sched_send.C
+++ b/sched/sched_send.C
@@ -120,9 +120,11 @@ double max_allowable_disk(SCHEDULER_REQUEST& req, SCHEDULER_REPLY& reply) {
 
     // fill in default values for missing prefs
     //
-    if (prefs.disk_max_used_gb == 0) prefs.disk_max_used_gb = 0.1;   // 100 MB
-    if (prefs.disk_max_used_pct == 0) prefs.disk_max_used_pct = 10;
-    // min_free_gb can be zero
+    if (prefs.disk_max_used_gb == 0) prefs.disk_max_used_gb = 100.0; // 100 GB
+    if (prefs.disk_max_used_pct == 0) prefs.disk_max_used_pct = 50;  // 50%
+    // FIXME: if user wants to set min_free_gb to zero (this is allowed) then
+    // the web page interface needs to set it to a small value, eg 1.e-6.
+    if (prefs.disk_min_free_gb == 0) prefs.disk_min_free_gb = 0.1    // 100 MB
 
     // no defaults for total/free disk space (host.d_total, d_free)
     // if they're zero, client will get no work.