File Readme.SuSE of Package ext3grep
1. Calculate when the files were deleted - e.g. to restore files that were deleted on 27th May 2008 on sda9: $ perl -e 'use POSIX; print strftime("%s", 0, 0, 0, 26, 5, 2008-1900); print "\n"' 2. Run ext3grep: $ ext3grep /dev/sda9 --restore-all --after=1214431200