What is the difference between .lzma and .tgz?
- Extension
- .lzma
- .tgz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- 7-Zip
- GNU
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-lzma
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.lzma
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .lzma on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia