> If it were me, I'd just do a restore from my backups. > --- > Eric Crist That's helpful.... And now, for my equally helpful response. If there is something textlike that you really really need back, you might be able to find it with grep and dd. But otherwise... I think your hosed. XFS (and ext3 and reiserFS) all write 0's over the block pointer when you delete, rather than just marking them as unused. If it were ext2, you could undelete the files. Sorry. Now you have an excuse to reinstall and update your OS :)