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

You could try by these ways. 1st.

sudo chown -R mongod:mongod /data/db

but at some times,this is not useful. 2nd. if the above way is not useful,you can try to do this:

mkdir /data/db #as the database storage path

nohup mongod --dbpath /data/db &

or type:

mongod --dbpath /data/db

to get the output stream