How to set the UUID on a swap partition?

[Charles Curley]

How does one set the UUID of a swap partition to a given value?

The problem is in recreating a hard drive for bare meta
restoration. Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon assigns partitions via UUIDs rather
than device names. I can examine fstab or the dark basement of /dev to
get the UUIDs. However, at restoration time, I must then assign them
to newly minted devices.

The e2fs tools provide a tool for doing this, tune2fs. However, it
does not appear to be a way to do this directly for swap partitions.

I have a kludge: put an e2fs file system on the partition, assign the
UUID, then run mkswap on it. It's ugly, but it gets you there. Is
there a better way to do this?

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