What is the difference between .mbr and .tar.7z?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .tar.7z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- Igor Pavlov
- 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 format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-7z-compressed
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia