What is the difference between .mbr and .tar?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- IBM
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia