English English Wikipedia has an article on:VFATWikipedia Pronunciation IPA(key): /viː.fæt/ Noun VFAT (plural VFATs) (computing) Initialism of virtual file allocation table: the method used by Windows 9x and Windows NT to allow the use of long filenames on FAT16 and FAT32 file systems while still providing 8.3 aliases of these filenames for backwards compatibility with systems not supporting long filenames. Related terms FAT FAT12 FAT16 FAT16B FAT16X FAT32 FAT32X FAT64 FATX exFAT Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.