I symlinked the var lib mongodb to a drive with space

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/newdrive2/var/lib/mongodb/journal
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/mongodb/*
sudo ln -s /var/lib/mongodb/ /mnt/newdrive2/var/lib/mongodb/
sudo /etc/init.d/mongodb restart

yet it still complains:
```
Sun Oct 25 07:28:29.066 [initandlisten] journal dir=/var/lib/mongodb/journal
Sun Oct 25 07:28:29.066 [initandlisten] recover : no journal files present, no recovery needed
Sun Oct 25 07:28:29.066 [initandlisten]
Sun Oct 25 07:28:29.066 [initandlisten] ERROR: Insufficient free space for journal files
Sun Oct 25 07:28:29.066 [initandlisten] Please make at least 3379MB available in /var/lib/mongodb/journal or use --smallfiles