How to make a UUID for a new hard drive

[Rashkae]

Craig Hagerman wrote:

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> 
> Now that you point that stuff out I guess so. I will use use cfdisc to
> re-create the filesystem and see if I get a UUID out of that.
> 
cfdisk is for creating partitions.. now you need to create the 
filesystem. Use mkfs.ext3 for that...

Example, assuming your drive and partition are at /dev/sde1

sudo mkfs.ext3 /dev/sde1