Generally, when I do my backups I ignore the /dev folder. Then, I usually populate /dev by using:

MAKEDEV generic
MAKEDEV std

However, this does not generate the /dev/xvda, /dev/xvdb, ....

Any idea how do this?

This is how I do it for distro images:

XEN_MAJOR=202
XEN_MINOR=0
for XEN_DRIVE in a b c d e f g h
do
    if [ ! -e xvd$XEN_DRIVE ]
        then mknod xvd$XEN_DRIVE b $XEN_MAJOR $XEN_MINOR
    fi
    let "XEN_MINOR = $XEN_MINOR + 16"
done
chown root:disk xvd*
chmod g+w xvd*

That creates them in `pwd` so you need to cd /dev first.

-James

Thanks.

Apparently if "Xenify distro" is enabled in the Linode Manager, this will be done when you boot

Last I knew "xenify" didn't create device nodes. Maybe it's udev doing that for you?

-Chris