What is the difference between .tar.gz and .tbz2?
- Extension
- .tar.gz
- .tbz2
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Compressed
- Compressed
- Developer
- The GNU Project
- Bzip2
- Description
- It's a TAR archive file compressed using GNU zip compression codec. Mainly used by Linux OS to package programs, files, and installers.
- File archive compressed with both .TAR and .BZ2 compression; often found on Unix systems; must first be decompressed (using Bzip 2 decompression), then the files must be extracted from the tar archive.
- MIME Type
- application/gzip
- application/x-bzip2
- Sample
- sample.tar.gz