What is the difference between .squashfs and .tar?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- Jean-loup Gailly
- 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.
- Tar archive created by tar, a Unix-based utility used to package files together; contains multiple files stored in an uncompressed format; commonly compressed into a .GZ file using GNU Zip compression.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia