foremost not finding anything

I'm running centos 6 on a vps and I deleted a very important folder containing a website. So I tried foremost but the program isn't finding a single thing. From what I gather I need to specify the partition to search on. If I run cat /proc/partitions I get nothing. so I did df-h and that shows:
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/simfs 15G 9.1G 6.0G 61% / none 384M 4.0K 384M 1% /dev none 384M 164K 384M 1% /dev/shm

I know the partition I need is is /dev/simfs. I managed to install foremost-1.5.7-1.el6.rf.x86_64 and ran it but this is the output I get:
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[root@vps ~]# foremost -a -t jpg,html -i /dev/simfs -v Foremost version 1.5.7 by Jesse Kornblum, Kris Kendall, and Nick Mikus Audit File Foremost started at Fri Nov 6 09:28:56 2020 Invocation: foremost -a -t jpg,html -i /dev/simfs -v Output directory: /root/output Configuration file: /usr/local/etc/foremost.conf Processing: stdin |------------------------------------------------------------------ File: stdin Start: Fri Nov 6 09:28:56 2020 Length: Unknown Num Name (bs=512) Size File Offset Comment

the program just sits there doing nothing. there's a ton of stuff i just deleted (along with the folder I shouldn't have deleted) so it should be finding lots of things. thanks for any help.