What is the difference between .mbr and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .tar.bz2
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia