What is the difference between .iso and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .iso
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- The International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-iso9660-image
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .iso on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia