How to prevent changing UUIDs on install?

[Dotan Cohen]

> The UUID is a property of the file system so it changes if you create
> a new file system. For ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems you can change the
> UUID using tune2fs -U
>

Yes, I am aware of this. What I need is a way to either format the
partition and reuse the old UUID, or a way to completely remove the
data from the partition without formatting it.

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