Is there a step to step guide to change the place where my MongoDB data is stored?

MongoDB for Startups
#1

Hi everyone. I started with MongoDB a few days ago and noticed it installed in the local C drive.

I have my OS booting from that disk, so I wanted to make Mongo store its data on the D drive. When looking up ways to do it, I found about using --dbpath, as well as modifying the .config file on the “bin” folder. However, after doing both of those things, I noticed that everytime I made a change on a database, the updates where made on the C: folder where Mongo installed, rather than the folder I indicated with both the --dbpath and the config file (checked it did this because of the times the files where modified in there).

I definitely think I’m doing something wrong and I didn’t find any posts online that apply to the last version of MongoDB (6.0). Can anyone give a step by step guide to do this, that someone who just started on Mongo can follow?

Appreciate it!

#2

I’m not sure why that happens. Every thing related to mongodb should be in that same folder. No idea.

But maybe you can work around it by creating a dump of your data (should be small since only few days) and restore it to a local server with different path.