What is the difference between .lz and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .lz
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Lzip
- The GNU Project
- Description
- An archive file format that uses lossless data compression LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain) algorithm and incorporates 32-bit CRC checksum to check data integrity of the file. Lzip supports greater compression ratios than bzip2.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzh-compressed
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .lz on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia