What you are learning
IOspan is finding disk bottlenecks. The teaching focus is Disk I/O (iostat, iotop, latency).
Work in order. Early parts set vocabulary and environment; later parts assume the earlier checkpoints.
How to use these lessons
Read the goal, open the matching GitHub folder, complete the lab or exercises, then return for the explanation. If a command fails, check you are in the numbered folder first.
Parts in order
Each chapter below is one checkpoint in this lab.