What is the difference between .squashfs and .zip?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .zip
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- Phil Katz
- 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.
- A ZIP file is an archive that contains one or more files compressed or "zipped" using Zip compression. It stores files separately from each other allowing the files to be compressed using different methods and extracted without compressing or decompressing the entire archive.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/zip
- Sample
- sample.zip
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .zip on Wikipedia