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

For me on CentOS 6.x:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb sudo service mongod restart

And I have set a custom db-path in /etc/mongod.conf.