title: Mongodb accessing database
body: <p>i am trying to acces a mongodb database. Based on that tree 
  <code>
  /var/lib/mongodb $ ls
  admin.0  admin.ns  diagnostic.data  journal  local.0  local.1  local.ns  mongod.lock  mummer_alana.0  mummer_alana.ns  storage.bson
  </code></p>
  
  <p>The database iam trying to acces is store is the mummer_alana.0 but iam not able to see it on the shell. </p>
  
  <pre><code> &gt; show databases;
   admin  0.000GB
   local  0.000GB
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Also i am pretty sure my dbpath is well configured </p>
  
  <pre><code>cat /etc/mongod.conf 
  # mongod.conf
  
  # for documentation of all options, see:
  #   http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/reference/configuration-options/
  
  # Where and how to store data.
  storage:
    dbPath: /var/lib/mongodb/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Cheers.</p>