What is the difference between .squashfs and .tar.xz?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .tar.xz
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- Tukaani
- 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.
- File created using Tar archive and XZ compression tools; contains a .TAR archive that has been compressed using .XZ compression, which compresses at a high ratio.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/x-xz-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.xz
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .tar.xz on Wikipedia