how to recover deleted file by mistake

One day I deleted a file by mistake. Worst more I was in root login and used following command

rm -rf INSTANT

so the file got deleted, and it took 2 hours to build it again.

Is there ary method to get back the deleted file in LIUNX,

Any idea

ANAND,

Your file is gone man. There is no way to recover it. Some people replace rm with a 'kit' which will move the file(s) into a temporary location

eg (off the top of my head)

mv /bin/rm /bin/rm.real

vi /bin/rm
#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -d /tmp/deleted_files ]; then
mkdir /tmp/deleted_files
fi

mv $* /tmp/deleted_files

Stellar Phoenix provide hardrive/data recovery programs, you will be able to download their demos and at least test for the presence of the files. I don't know if their linux client runs in linux or under Win32 by mounting these drives using their own drivers - but one thing is for sure, they apparently don't have ReiserFS support yet.

www.stellarinfo.com

OK..
I understand that, that is an indirect process to do that,

Anyway thanks for the idea.