How to unmount - permanently - directory 192.168.88.15?

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For the past months I’m having a directory called 192.168.88.15 in my Desktop folder. I can unmount it, but keeps mounting back. This is Fedora 44 / Gnome 50. Thanks in advance.

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I’m not familiar with any program that would create such a mount point under ~/Desktop. Are you sure it is a mount point? Does the following command report that it is a mount point?

mountpoint ~/Desktop/192.168.88.15

If it is a mount point, maybe the following command would tell you what program is using it?

sudo lsof ~/Desktop/192.168.88.15

Otherwise, I don’t know. Maybe it is being created by some startup program you have configured? Does it show back up immediately when you sign in on your PC or does it only show after you have run some specific application?

Another way you might be able to track down what is causing it is by looking at its creation timestamp and then looking in your user logs to see what was running at that time. Here is an example command that might work to show those log entries (+/- 10 seconds).

FILE="$HOME/Desktop/192.168.88.15"; journalctl --user --since="@$(($(stat -c '%W' "$FILE")-10))" --until="@$(($(stat -c '%W' "$FILE")+10))"
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It shows at random, and sometimes dessapears and then appears again within minutes. mountpoint reports “No such file or directory”, while sudo lsof ~/Desktop/192.168.88.15 reports this:

lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfsd-fuse file system /run/user/1000/gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.portal file system /run/user/1000/doc
      Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: status error on /home/francisco/Desktop/192.168.88.15: No such file or directory

So, it does not seem like a real directory. Nautilus reports it as a network directory which I cannot access as user. The last command reports as follows:

stat: cannot statx '/home/francisco/Desktop/192.168.88.15': No such file or directory
stat: cannot statx '/home/francisco/Desktop/192.168.88.15': No such file or directory
Failed to parse timestamp: @-10

Perhaps it has something to do with my Mikrotik router, bacause I get the same issue with another Mikrotik router in another location.

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Check out How to disable media automount in GNOME.

Gnome tries to be user friendly and autmounts mountable things. You can disable this if you like, but Gnome does not provide an easy way to do this.

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Just in case and after further investigation, I can confirm this is a Sftp Filesystem.