[Novices] help for longtime (but novice) user who finally managed to misuse rm...?

[Steve Petersen]

Hey folks,

I just typed '\rm -rf *' on my home directory, thinking I was in a 
different directory, and it was a few seconds before I noticed my 
mistake and hit ^C.

My "key" files are triply backed up all the time, and other less 
important stuff is backed up monthly (or so), but I also have a /lot/ of 
files in my home directory I don't back up at all--my mp3's of all my 
CD's, for example.

I don't expect there's a whole lot anyone can do for me, but if you have 
any helpful advice I could could use it.  Perhaps most importantly:  is 
there any clever way to figure out exactly what managed to get erased? 
I'm using RH 8.0--old I know, but it /is/ ext3.  I don't know much about 
journaling, but I'm trying to learn fast!  I tried 'logdump /dev/hdb3' 
as root and got this error:

<logdump typeout>
Incorrectly built binary which accesses errno, h_errno or _res directly. 
Needs to be fixed.
logdump version 1.0.17, 02-Apr-2002
Device Name: /dev/hdb3
JFS_LOGDUMP:couldn't read log superblock:failure in (null)
</logdump typeout>

A file gets created that just says basically the same thing.

Thanks for any help,
Steve