What is the difference between .swm and .tar?
- Extension
- .swm
- .tar
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Other
- Developer
- Microsoft
- Jean-loup Gailly
- Description
- The SWM file format, or Split Windows Imaging Format File, is a type of disk image file used by Microsoft Windows for system deployment, backup, and recovery purposes. It is essentially a variation of the WIM (Windows Imaging Format) file, but with a key difference: it is split into multiple smaller files, rather than being a single large file. This splitting feature makes SWM files particularly useful for distributing a large system image across multiple storage media, such as DVDs or USB drives.
- 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
- image/x-swm
- application/x-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar
- Wikipedia
- .swm on Wikipedia
- .tar on Wikipedia