What is the difference between .bz2 and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .bz2
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Julian Seward
- Igor Pavlov
- Description
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia