recovery partition

can anyone tell me what the recovery partition in relation to mmcblk0***? When I run df there is dev, mnt, system, cache, data, factory, storage, emulated x4 and that is it. I would think that there would be a recovery partition as well. Perhaps it is the one labeled "factory". I dont think it is though because it is showing as only 1.9M. I am trying to replace the recovery partition with dd because I cant get fastboot to work for some reason. I am using linux and adb works fine. Also I dont have root yet which is what I am trying to do now.

Code:

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df

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Filesystem Size Used Free Blksize
/dev 478.6M 68.0K 478.6M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup 478.6M 0.0K 478.6M 4096
/sys/fs/cgroup/memory: Permission denied
/mnt 478.6M 0.0K 478.6M 4096
/system 991.9M 925.9M 66.0M 4096
/cache 248.0M 3.0M 244.9M 4096
/data 5.8G 1.3G 4.5G 4096
/factory 1.9M 152.0K 1.7M 4096
/storage 478.6M 0.0K 478.6M 4096
/mnt/runtime/default/emulated: Permission denied
/storage/emulated 5.8G 1.3G 4.5G 4096
/mnt/runtime/read/emulated: Permission denied
/mnt/runtime/write/emulated: Permission denied

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cat /proc/partitions

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major minor #blocks name

179 0 7634944 mmcblk0
179 1 16384 mmcblk0p1
179 2 16384 mmcblk0p2
179 3 16384 mmcblk0p3
179 4 6144 mmcblk0p4
179 5 4096 mmcblk0p5
179 6 4096 mmcblk0p6
179 7 1024 mmcblk0p7
179 8 16384 mmcblk0p8
179 9 262144 mmcblk0p9
259 0 1048576 mmcblk0p10
259 1 6243291 mmcblk0p11
179 30 4096 mmcblk0rpmb
179 20 4096 mmcblk0boot1
179 10 4096 mmcblk0boot0
253 0 102400 zram0

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