How can I tell where mongoDB is storing data? (its

问题:

My host came with a mongodb instance and there is no /db directory so now I am wondering what I can do to find out where the data is actually being stored.

回答1:

mongod defaults the database location to /data/db/.

If you run ps -xa | grep mongod and you don't see a --dbpath which explicitly tells mongod to look at that parameter for the db location and you don't have a dbpath in your mongodb.conf, then the default location will be: /data/db/ and you should look there.

回答2:

What does your configuration file say?

$ grep dbpath /etc/mongodb.conf

If it is not correct, try this, your database files will be present on the list:

$ sudo lsof -p `ps aux | grep mongodb | head -n1 | tr -s ' ' | cut -d' ' -f 2` | grep REG

It's /var/lib/mongodb/* on my default installation (Ubuntu 11.04).

Note that there is also a /var/lib/mongodb/mongod.lock file holding mongod PID for convenience, however it is located in the data directory - which we are looking for...

回答3:

In the newer version of mongodb v2.6.4 try:

grep dbpath /etc/mongod.conf

It will give you something like this:

dbpath=/var/lib/mongodb

And that is where it stores the data.

回答4:

From my experience the default location is /var/lib/mongodb after I do

sudo apt-get install -y mongodb-org

回答5:

While this question is targeted for Linux/Unix instances of Mongo, it's one of the first search results regardless of the operating system used, so for future Windows users that find this:

If MongoDB is set up as a Windows Service in the default manner, you can usually find it by looking at the 'Path to executable' entry in the MongoDB Service's Properties:

回答6:

I found mine here on a OSX system /usr/local/var/mongodb

回答7:

I find db.serverCmdLineOpts() the most robust way to find actual path if you can connect to the server. The "parsed.storage.dbPath" contains the path your server is currently using and is available both when it's taken from the config or from the command line arguments.

Also in my case it was important to make sure that the config value reflects the actual value (i.e. config didn't change after the last restart), which isn't guaranteed by the solutions offered here.

db.serverCmdLineOpts()

Example output:

{
    "argv" : [ 
        // --
    ],
    "parsed" : {
        "config" : "/your-config",
        "storage" : {
            "dbPath" : "/your/actual/db/path",
            // --
        }
    },
    "ok" : 1.0
}

回答8:

Found it just by poking around in /var/db. Thanks for the help though--I am sure these answers apply to other systems (e.g. Ubuntu) and will help others!

回答9:

If you could somehow locate mongod.log and the do a grep over it

grep dbpath mongod.log

The value for dbpath is the data location for mongodb!! All the best :)

回答10:

When you start it up it shows you. But I don't know if it is something you can do or not on your host. If you have access to the command line and can restart the service, you will get something like:

    2016-11-15T12:57:09.182-0500 I CONTROL  [initandlisten]
 MongoDB starting : pid=16448 port=27017 dbpath=C:\data\db\ 

回答11:

Actually the default directory where the mongod instance stores its data is

/data/db on Linux and OS X,

\data\db on Windows

If you installed MongoDB using a package management system, check the /etc/mongod.conf file provided by your packages to see the directory is specified.

The storage.dbPath setting is available only for mongod.

The Linux package init scripts do not expect storage.dbPath to change from the defaults. If you use the Linux packages and change storage.dbPath, you will have to use your own init scripts and disable the built-in scripts.