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the last update deleted the recovery partition

Hi, since the last update from Big Sur is the recovery partition gone (deleted?).

If i press cmd+R on start it will make an internet recovery.

On Catalina was this ok.

thanks

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Dec 1, 2022 5:31 AM

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Dec 1, 2022 6:14 AM in response to feketekave

Using the Terminal command below will identify the drive structure of this computer


diskutil list


Below is illustration from an Apple M-Class Computer so on Intel it may look differently but will list Recovery Volume ( not Partition )


diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0


   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk3         245.1 GB   disk0s2


   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk2         5.4 GB     disk0s3




/dev/disk3 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +245.1 GB   disk3


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            8.8 GB     disk3s1


   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 8.8 GB     disk3s1s1


   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 5.2 GB     disk3s2


   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                741.4 MB   disk3s3


   5:                APFS Volume Data                    18.4 GB    disk3s5


   6:                APFS Volume VM                      20.5 KB    disk3s6

the last update deleted the recovery partition

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