The only recommended way to recover files that have been deleted, will be to

restore from your most recent backup.  Unfortunately, the default file system

for most new linux installs(ext3), does not lend itself to easily undeleting files.



This is what one of the developers of ext3, Andreas Dilger,
said about it:

In order to ensure that ext3 can safely resume an unlink after a
crash, it actually

zeros out the block pointers in the inode, whereas ext2 just marks these blocks as

unused in the block bitmaps and marks
the inode as “deleted” and leaves the block

pointers alone.

Your only hope is to “grep” for parts of your files that have been deleted
and hope

for the best.