What is the difference between .tar.7z and .tar.z?
- Extension
- .tar.7z
- .tar.z
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- Igor Pavlov
- The GNU Project
- Description
- This format works based on the LZMA principle compression algorithm. It was originally used in 7-Zip archives. tar.7z archives were created for storing info about file owners and for ease of use in Unix systems, based on a TAR archiving tool.
- A TAR.Z file is a Unix TAR archive compressed with a standard Unix compression algorithm to save disk space. It contains one or more compressed files. The file is commonly used on Unix operating systems to archive groups of files.
- MIME Type
- application/x-7z-compressed
- application/x-tarz
- Wikipedia
- .tar.7z on Wikipedia
- .tar.z on Wikipedia