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

This is what I did to fix the problem:

$sudo mkdir -p /data/db

$export PATH=/usr/local/Cellar/mongodb/3.0.7/bin:$PATH

$sudo chown -R id -u /data/db

and then to start mongo...

$mongod

Answer 2

I use this method to solve the problem:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb /data/db

Answer 3

On a Fedora 18 with Mongo 2.2.4 instance I was able to get around a similar error by disabling SELinux by calling setenforce 0 as root.

BTW, this was a corporate environment, not an Amazon EC2 instance, but the symptoms were similar.

Answer 4

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

Answer 5

If you literally want a one line equivalent to the commands in your original question, you could alias:

mongo --eval "db.getSiblingDB('admin').shutdownServer()"

https://stackoverflow.com/a/11777141/7160782

Answer 6

I had the same problem.

I solved it by changing selinux status to permissive with below command:

setenforce 0