In order to find in MongoDB the whole paths, you can go into the mongoshell with

mongosh

It is possible that you see this message, but you can ignore it:

sven@fedora:~$ mongosh
Current Mongosh Log ID: 68833ee8dc64789649384af8
Connecting to: mongodb://127.0.0.1:27017/?directConnection=true&serverSelectionTimeoutMS=2000&appName=mongosh+2.5.6
Using MongoDB: 7.0.22
Using Mongosh: 2.5.6

For mongosh info see: https://www.mongodb.com/docs/mongodb-shell/

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The server generated these startup warnings when booting

2025-07-25T04:36:15.431+02:00: Access control is not enabled for the database. Read and write access to data and configuration is unrestricted

and type the command:

db.serverCmdLineOpts()

then you get the following output:

test> db.serverCmdLineOpts()
{
argv: [ ‚/usr/bin/mongod‘, ‚-f‘, ‚/etc/mongod.conf‘ ],
parsed: {
config: ‚/etc/mongod.conf‘,
net: { bindIp: ‚127.0.0.1‘, port: 27017 },
processManagement: { timeZoneInfo: ‚/usr/share/zoneinfo‘ },
storage: { dbPath: ‚/var/lib/mongo‘ },
systemLog: {
destination: ‚file‘,
logAppend: true,
path: ‚/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log‘
}
},
ok: 1
}