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Greg Mayman wrote:
>
>   mount -t vfat /dev/fd0

That's not a complete mounting command.  You are missing
the mountpoint.

>   ls /fd
> This gave me a list of the files but with the short filenames.

Because, when you give an incomplete mounting command, 
Linux looks in /etc/fstab to see if that device is
listed there.  In BL3 /dev/fd0 is listed in /etc/fstab
so Linux uses the data there to mount it.  That data
has msdos (not vfat) as the filesystem type.

>   mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
>   ls /mnt
> The list of files was now in the longname format.

Since you issued a complete mounting command, Linux did
not have to go to /etc/fstab.

Cheers,
Steven