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 had similar issue, the actual reason was that there was mongod session running already from my previous attempt.

I ran

killall mongod

and everything else ran just as expected.

killall command would send a TERM signal to all processes with a real UID. So this kills all the running instances of mongod so that you could start your own.