To Play a Storage Sysadmin

Create a large partition on Linux

LVM HOWTO, especially how to setup striping. Or use the fancy GUI of system-config-lvm.

XFS FAQ.
Enable additional file system support in RHEL, a very nice guide considered by others.

Some discussions on LVM vs. RAID, and Partition Alignment.

Benchmark with iozone.

Bad Script Interpreter

I ran into the exact same problem with python today as described in this blog post.

In short, if a shell barks at the interpreter line like "#!/usr/bin/python" in your script while the path is absolutely correct, try run "dos2unix" on the source file.

I am a PC and I'm 4 and a half.