What is the difference between .squashfs and .zipx?
- Extension
- .squashfs
- .zipx
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Phillip Lougher
- PKWARE, Inc.
- 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.
- WinZip, starting with version 12.1, uses the extension .zipx for ZIP files that use compression methods newer than DEFLATE; specifically, methods BZip, LZMA, PPMd, Jpeg and Wavpack. The last 2 are applied to appropriate file types when "Best method" compression is selected.
- MIME Type
- application/x-squashfs
- application/zip
- Wikipedia
- .squashfs on Wikipedia
- .zipx on Wikipedia