How do I unmount a charging device in Linux?

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Published on 2012-07-08T17:48:36Z Indexed on 2012/07/08 21:18 UTC
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I have a mobile device attached via USB to a Linux box and wish to unmount it. I ran the command fdisk -l however it does not list a mount point. I then ran the command lsusb which yielded the screenshot below.

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I then proceeded to search the /dev/disk/by-id directory and was found the following file

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The file is a symbolic link to what appears to be /dev/sdc

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Questions

Why does it not appear when I run the command fdisk -l?
How do I unmount it properly without simply yanking the USB cord from the USB port?

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