Has anybody had any luck getting decent battery life from linux laptops? I can never get the hd to spin down for any length of time because of all the random fs activity especially on /var. Without disabling syslogd, are there any solutions to getting the hd to spin down? hdparm -S 1 /dev/hda doesn't work and is rather annoying because the disk spins down and starts right back up -- probably using as much or more power than if it had just stayed up. I am concidering mounting /var on a ramdisk just before suspend but I think sync'ing to the disk when it wakes up would be tricky. Remote sysloging is an option but doesn't help me when I'm off the network. any insight -- much appreciated, marc