What is the difference between .hfsx and .tar?
- Extension
- .hfsx
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Apple
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- HSFX is a file system developed by Apple Inc in order to replace HFS – Hierarchical File System that is the main file system used in Mac computers or other various PC. The iPod digital media player also uses this file system. HFSX file system is another version of HFS Plus. They are almost similar to HFS+ volumes, except that the HFS Wrapper, which is typical of HFS Plus volumes will never surrounds them and they support case sensitivity for the names given to all the files and folders. These volumes are easily recognized by a value of HX in the signature field with two entries in the Volume Header.
- 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/octet-stream
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .hfsx on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia