What is the difference between .mbr and .gzip?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .gzip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- GNU
- 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.
- A compressed file format associated with GNU Zip (Gzip) that uses the DEFLATE compression algorithm, a combination of both the Huffman coding and the Lempel-Ziv (LZ77) codec.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-gzip
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .gzip on Wikipedia