What is the default database path for MongoDB?

Question

I got an error about dbpath (/data/db/) does not exist, but /etc/mongodb.conf named it dbpath = /var/lib/mongodb. So, which is the de

Answer 1

I depends on the version and the distro.

For example the default download pre-2.2 from the MongoDB site uses: /data/db but the Ubuntu install at one point used to use: var/lib/mongodb.

I think these have been standardised now so that 2.2+ will only use data/db whether it comes from direct download on the site or from the repos.