What is the difference between .lzma and .gz?
- Extension
- .lzma
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- The GNU Project
- Description
- A compressed file format that uses LZMA (Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain Algorithm) compression for higher compression ratio and fast decompression. Mainly used by 7-Zip file archivers.
- 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-lzma
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.lzma
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .lzma on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia