What is the difference between .mbr and .gz?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- 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-msdos-program
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia