Conditional Yes.
When you do a rm -rf, the data as such is not deleted. Only the inodes are
'freed'. The data still exists on the hard disk.
It is theoretically possible to recover the data. There are special
tools/companies which will do it for you. Don't know details. You will have to
search.
You can mail to the ext3 file system developer list (or the dev list for your
filesystem) if you have the time and patience. I hope you are using ext3.
Don't format the hard disk or anything. Find the experts who can do this for
you and give it to him/her. But some times this may fail too if the actual data
portions have been overwritten.
If you havn't removed the home dirs, recovery is trivial. Just login as root,
make sure the relevant partitions are mounted and start copying.
Good luck,
kc
K. C. Ramakrishna
rKnowsys Technologies
www.rknowsys.com
+91 98494-16664 (Cell)
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