Can I manually set the UUID on a swap partition in Red Hat Enteprise Linux 5?

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • The mkswap utility in Fedora and other Linux distributions has a -U option to set a UUID. 
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, however, doesn't seem to have this functionality in its mkswap.

  • Is it possible set a UUID to the swap partition using mkswap?

Environment

util-linux-2.13-0.50.el5.x86_64

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