...and one additional variable that hasn't been mentioned here is "what originated the recovery partition?"
If the boot drive is a clone produced by a third party cloning utility it might NOT update the recovery partition in the process....leading to the possibility of having an updated OS but NOT having a similarly updated recovery partition.
And in a similar but different vein...
I've got two El Cap recovery partitions on my deuced Mac(hina), one created when I installed the OS and one created by Carbon Copy Cloner.
If I now upgrade to Sierra, which will do its own partition thing, can I archive the cloned El Cap partition and have dual recovery ability?
