MongoDB: Exception In InitAndListen: 20 Attempted To Create A Lock File On A Read-Only Directory: /Data/Db, Terminating

904    Asked by AlisonKelly in Devops , Asked on Nov 23, 2022

 I created /data/db in root directory and ran ./mongodb:

[initandlisten] exception in initAndListen: 20 Attempted to create a lock file on a read-only directory: /data/db, terminating 

[initandlisten] shutdown: going to close listening sockets... [initandlisten] shutdown: going to flush dialog... [initandlisten] now exiting [initandlisten] shutting down with code:100

Answered by Amit raj

If you received the error - MongoDB: Exception In InitAndListen: 20 Attempted To Create A Lock File On A Read-Only Directory: /Data/Db, Terminating The problem is that the directory you created, /data/db is owned by and only writable by the root user, but you are running mongodb as yourself. There are several ways to resolve this, but ultimately, you must give the directory in question the right permissions. If this is for production, I would advise you to check the docs and think this over carefully -- you probably want to take special care.

However, if this is just for testing and you just need this to work and get on with it, you could try this, which will make the directory writable by everyone:

> sudo chmod -R go+w /data/db
or this, which will make the directory owned by you:
> sudo chown -R $USER /data/db

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