Re: Mongodb smallfiles option
On Tue, 5 Aug 2014 12:27:16 -0700
S Tan <simon1tan@gmail.com> wrote:
>I keep getting "ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal
>files....Please make at least 3379MB available in
>/var/lib/mongodb/journal or use --smallfiles." I am trying to run
>mongodb with smallfiles option. Looked in /etc/mongodb.conf but I do
>not see that as an option. So I modified /etc/init.d/mongodb (the
>startup function) to include --smallfiles(in DAEMON_OPTS) but so far,
>no go. Any help would appreciated. Thanks.
I believe --smallfiles is an option to limit the size of optional files
to 512MB. You still need a heck of a lot of storage space if you are
going to run a cluster. This option should probably go somewhere
in /etc/mongodb.conf rather than in the init file.
what's the output of:
sudo df -H
You may need to expand a partition, or add a secondary drive and mount
it at /var/lib/mongodb
Personally, I've found mongodb too complicated and cumbersome for most
of my use cases... postgresql is my go to database pretty much
everywhere.
--Andrew
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