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.
On 8 October 2012 14:28, Octavian Covalschi <octavian.covals...@gmail.com>wrote:
> How much space do you have?
> df -h
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 6:25 AM, Cayden Liew <cayden....@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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