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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