How to view the hidden MacOS 10.7 Lion Recovery Partition

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The recovery partition is hidden in both the Startup Disk system preference and the Disk Utility. To view: 

diskutil list
/dev/disk5
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *320.1 GB   disk5
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk5s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS LION BOOT DISK          319.2 GB   disk5s2
   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk5s3

In the example above slice 3 is the recovery parition.

To boot into this partition hold the ATL key when rebooting and select the Recovery volume or hold Command-R when rebooting to boot directly into the recovery partition.

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