Basically my problem is that my Recovery partition has disappeared following a Time Machine restore, and I'm trying to get it back.
As suggested in my earlier post I did the simpler: "sudo diskutil mount /dev/disk0s3" . to mount the Recovery partition. But when I looked at the file system there, it was very different from what was suggested in post #1 of this thread:
The just mounted Recover partition contains these TWO directories:
:Recovery $ ll
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 Sep 15 17:01 .
drwxr-xr-x@ 10 root wheel 320 Sep 16 21:54 ..
d-wx-wx-wt 4 root wheel 128 Sep 1 14:20 .Trashes
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 416 Jul 9 19:14 6C97A77D-566E-335E-8481-50C871A14957
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 416 Sep 15 17:17 6F9BA544-26EF-41D0-9757-9065DB9D744D
and both of these directories contain these files/directories (similar in both):
cd ../6F9BA544-26EF-41D0-9757-9065DB9D744D/
$ ls -l
drwxr-xr-x 13 root wheel 416 Sep 15 17:17 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 Sep 15 17:01 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 160 Sep 15 17:17 .diagnostics
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1984 Sep 15 17:01 BaseSystem.chunklist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 486219126 Sep 15 16:57 BaseSystem.dmg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5082 Jun 20 00:27 PlatformSupport.plist
-r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 480 Jul 4 03:33 SystemVersion.plist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 576056 Sep 15 17:16 boot.efi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2738 Jul 4 04:35 boot.efi.j137ap.im4m
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 397 Sep 15 17:17 com.apple.Boot.plist
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 29263691 Jun 29 02:06 immutablekernel
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2738 Jul 4 04:35 immutablekernel.j137ap.im4m
-rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 29263691 Jun 29 02:06 prelinkedkernel
Should I delete one of the upper directories?
6C97A77D-566E-335E-8481-50C871A14957
or
6F9BA544-26EF-41D0-9757-9065DB9D744D
Any suggestiions?