What is the difference between .squashfs and .gz?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .gz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- The GNU Project
- Description
- It is a Linux compressed a read-only file that supports compression of block sizes from 4 KiB to 1 MiB using various compression codecs. The free application used to access Squashfs filesystems is also known as Squashfs.
- This is a compressed archive file that contains one or more files compressed by standard GNU zip (gzip) compression algorithm. It is mainly used by Unix OS.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/x-compressed
- Sample
- sample.gz
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .gz on Wikipedia