Unable to start docker mongo image on windows

Question

When starting the image I get the following error:

 2019-02-27T17:09:41.095+0000 E STORAGE  [initandlisten] WiredTiger error (17) [1551287381:95206][1:0x7fae         


        

Answer 1

Although Augustas is right, but I found this answer particularly useful with docker-compose.yml.

What you can do as a workaround is:

1. Create a .env file in the same path as your docker-compose file and store the current path in an environment variable like this:

MONGO_HOST_DATA=/Users/user123/MyMongoProject //path to mongo data folder (for C:\Users\user123\MyMongoProject)

2. Now, in your docker-compose file, replace the above-mentioned variable:

    services:
      my-mongo-db:
      build: ./database
      ports:
       - 32815:27017
      volumes:
    - ${MONGO_HOST_DATA}/database/db:/data/db

• If you want to see how the actual path replaced the environment variable, you can use the following command:

docker-compose config

Additionally, if you use any disk drive other than C:\ you might want to change the Docker file sharing settings:

Hope this helps.