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

Fix: sudo mongod

I had the same problem, running mongod with sudo privileges fixed it. Coming from a windows environment, I used just mongod to start the daemon, well it looks like we need the superuser privileges to access /data/db.

You can also give non root users Read and Write permissions to that path. check answers above for a guide!