What is the difference between .squashfs and .tar.gz?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .tar.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.
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/gzip
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .tar.gz on Wikipedia