I have a laptop with multiple installs of Debian Jessie using MATE
desktop. There are minor differences of package complements - the
purpose being to determine an optimal configuration.
There are a relatively small number of files which I would like to have
the latest version available no matter which install is active.
My solution was to place this files on a separate partition of the hdd.
It will be mounted at boot. The fstab entry is currently
UUID=E90C-65B4 /media/common vfat auto,exec,rw,flush,umask=000 0 0
The problem occurred on the very first use:
I opened /media/common by double-clicking its desktop icon.
I then:
right-clicked on the desktop icon of a text file
selected "Copy" from the menu
moved mouse over the displayed directory of /media/common
right-clicked and chose "Paste" from menu
The file was _apparently_ copied as expected.
*HOWEVER* the act of copying set the execution flag.
Why?
