Having to use my partners elderly laptop (P2 thinkpad) recently so I can flash my treo 650 smartphone for an upgrade of the firmware and OS.

I don't usually switch either my main PC (linux based) or the laptop off, but I notice that when the laptop is in "sleep"/standby mode, it often shows what I'd think of as excessive disc activity - via the hard drive light.

As far as I can tell, the firewall and AV are up to date (Scans showing that theres nothing malicious going on - AFAIK), but I get a little paranoid as the laptop couldn't really run anything else other than the W98SE thats installed or maybe a leaner linux distro.

So how might I find out what the disc activity actually is ? i.e. what it's doing?

Oh and no, the network connections show that there doesn't seem to be anything going through it to the internet.

TVM in advance.

regards

fatbloke