What is the difference between .bzip2 and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .bzip2
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- bzip2
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It is an open-source file compressor and decompressor that is freely available and uses the Burrows-Wheeler codec. It isn't a file archiver as it compresses single files.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-bzip2
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .bzip2 on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia