How to S.M.A.R.T. check root partition?

Question

My root partition seems to be getting corrupted often. It's the second time this week. I would like to see the S.M.A.R.T. stats for the whole drive, but I am able to do it only for all the non-root disks (whilst using the Disks Utility).
How can I do a S.M.A.R.T. check on the whole drive?

Answer 1

You should be able to see the result of the most recent self-test through the gnome disks utility (run sudo gnome-disks from the CLI). To run a new test on the root disk, you'll need to run the test from a live USB.