Unable to create/open lock file: /data/mongod.lock errno:13 Permission denied

Question

How to I get mongo to use a mounted drive on ec2? I really do not understand. I attached a volume on ec2 formatted the drive as root and start as root and yet as root I ca

Answer 1

I installed mongodb with EBS on an EC2 with Ubuntu 14.04 following this tutorial:

http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/platforms/amazon-ec2/

But instead of the suggested chown I did:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data /log /journal

To fix the problem