What is the difference between .mbr and .bz2?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- Julian Seward
- Description
- MBR was introduced by IBM PC. It is called Master Boot Record as it's a unique boot sector found at the beginning of a drive. It stores the OS boot loader and information on the drive's logical partitions.
- An archive file developed by Bzip2 compressor mainly found on Unix OS. Its popularly used to move Linux application packages because of its high-level compression algorithms i.e. the Burrows-Wheeler compression and Run-Length Encoding (RLE).
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .bz2 on Wikipedia