What is the difference between .mbr and .xz?
- Extension
- .mbr
- .xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- IBM
- Tukaani
- 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.
- Commonly used for Linux software distribution, XZ files are archive files compressed with XZ compression algorithm. It may hold one or more compressed files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-msdos-program
- application/x-xz
- Wikipedia
- .mbr on Wikipedia
- .xz on Wikipedia