What is the difference between .swm and .tar.bz2?
- Extension
- .swm
- .tar.bz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Disk Image
- Compressed
- Developer
- Microsoft
- The GNU Project
- 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.
- It is a TAR archive file compressed using BZ2 compression codec and is popularly used to distribute Linux application packages.
- MIME Type
- image/x-swm
- application/x-bzip-compressed-tar
- Sample
- sample.tar.bz2
- Wikipedia
- .swm on Wikipedia
- .tar.bz2 on Wikipedia