What is the difference between .mbr and .tgz?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .tgz
- 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.
- Unix .TAR file archive compressed with Gnu Zip (.GZIP) compression; uses a TAR archive to bundle the files together and Gzip compression to reduce the file size; commonly used on Unix and Linux systems; originally created as the shorthand version of the compound extension .TAR.GZ.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.tgz
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .tgz on Wikipedia