What is the difference between .fat and .tar?
- Extension
- .fat
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- FAT (File Allocation Table) is a robust and simple file system that is used by the OS to manage files (i.e., reliability, performance, and scalability) on computer systems and hard drives. It is compatible with almost all computers, digital cameras, flash drives, mobile phones, and other portable devices; hence, it's common to use.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .fat on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia