Location of the mongodb database on mac

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Spaniard89 picture Spaniard89 · Dec 11, 2012 · Viewed 106.2k times · Source

I am kind of new to mac as well as mongodb.

I have a weird doubt, accessing the database created using mongodb on mac?

I know, in windows there is a folder called c:\data\db, where my database files are stored.

How and where in mac, the database is stored.

I remember doing something like 

sudo mkdir -p /data/db
sudo chown `id -u` /data/db

to create such a folder on mac, but I didn't find any database file in this folder, though i created a database.

Where are the database files saved on mac?

Any help would be really appreciated.

Answer

Mark Edington picture Mark Edington · Sep 22, 2013

If mongodb is installed via Homebrew the default location is:

/usr/local/var/mongodb

See the answer from @simonbogarde for the location of other interesting files that are different when using Homebrew.

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