What is the difference between .iso and .tar?
- Extension
- .iso
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- A disc image file format that contains exact duplicate data from an original CD/DVD and is based on the ISO-9660 Standard. It stores images, directory structures, file attributes, boot code, and any other filesystem information.
- 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-iso9660-image
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .iso on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia