Hello, A lot of *nix people often wonder the answer to the age old question :

i did rm -Rf by mistake - what do i do now ?

Well, there are quite a few answers to the same. Thankfully there is now a simple answer (with not so headbreaking). A friend of mine tried it out on his Ubuntu box(on ext3) and was able to recover a ton of stuff deleted over the ages.

To make things even better the answer is GPL :D

And the answer is :

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/PhotoRec

Regards,

- vihan