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

On windows be sure the console is started as aministrator

Answer 2

Every time you when you try to start mongod just type

sudo mongod

or if permanently want to fix this just try to give rwx premission to /data/db folder

 chmod +rwx data/

Answer 3

For me on CentOS 6.x:

sudo chown -R mongodb:mongodb <db-path> sudo service mongod restart

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

Answer 4

In my case the issue was solved by removing the log file.

sudo rm /log/mongod.log

Although the error message refers specifically to the lock file:

exception in initAndListen: 10309 Unable to create/open lock file: 
/data/mongod.lock errno:13 Permission denied 
Is a mongod instance already running?, terminating