How to rename a hidden Lion recovery partition?

I want to put a Lion recovery partition for each post Snow Leopard computer I'm supporting, but can't find a way to rename them, so that I don't have a bunch of identically named partitions to choose from. Any ideas?

First enable Disk Utility's Debug menu by entering this in Terminal:
defaults write com.apple.DiskUtility DUDebugMenuEnabled -bool YES
Then relaunch Disk Utility.  Under the Debug menu, select "Show Every Partition".  The Recovery HD will appear in the sidebar.  Click it once, and then click "Mount" in the toolbar.  The Recovery HD will then mount on the Desktop, where you can rename it like any other Finder item.

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