What is the difference between .img and .gz?
- Extension
- .img
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Apple Inc.
- The GNU Project
- Description
- A disc image file used to store duplicate CD or DVD data and is commonly used to burn new discs and creating backups. It is developed by any disc imaging software like HH Software Virtual CD.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-cd-image
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.img
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .img on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia