Re: [mongodb-user] Fail to start mongodb

[Octavian Covalschi]

How much space do you have?

df -h 

On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Cayden Liew <cayde...@gmail.com> wrote:

I installed mongodb in centos, and start the service, but return fail with "ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal files". Is it that i need a bigger harddisk?

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[Sam Millman]

As @Octavian hints, without the small files option mongodb will by default allocate about 3gb of journal, most likely you need a bigger hdd.

But as he states lets double check it by seeing the output of that command.